Becoming
Fran GardnerGo slow now. Take time, feel gratitude, forgive. Be authentic.
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Blight and glory
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Have you voted?
We don’t how much longer we will be able to freely vote in this country, so it’s important to exercise this right even in minor elections. The Oregon primary is Tuesday, May 17. I was at a town hall last we...
The golden shovel
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Mother
Maybe I am three or four years old. Toddling about the neighborhood in International Falls, I see small yellow flowers in a vacant lot. “What are those?” I ask my mother, and she says they are buttercups. More than...
Pass the purple, please
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May goals
I still don’t why I keep doing this, but last December, as in past year, I cobbled together a list of “goals” for each month of 2026. Now it’s May, and my goal for this month is a cryptic one . . . “hobbies, haza...
Poetry to the rescue
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Fawx fixes me
I was having a wretched day. My leg hurt so bad I couldn’t stand on it, and the pain medication was making me sick. I wanted coffee but couldn’t make it at home because I wasn’t able to stand long enough on m...
Dispatches from the cruellest month
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Thanks to Eliot
The title of this posting contains the first words of T.S. Eliot’s great poem, “The Wasteland.”
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April is the cruelles...
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Fran Gardner curates a sock drawer of ideas that don’t match. She salts them with photos and poems. Nothing is what you’d expect.
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