Waiting to board for Cádiz, in the slate gray Sevilla Santa Justa lobby, I am surprised to recognize where I am. I have been here before.
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Santa Justa Sonata
Posted in Music, Relationships, Spain, Travel on July 29, 2022 | 3 Comments »
String of broken promises / Cadena de promesas rotas
Posted in Guanajuato, Legends and Mythology, Love, Music on March 10, 2020 | 4 Comments »
[Many thanks/muchas gracias to my favorite princess, Kivieta Gutiérrez Suardíaz, for working with me to translate this poem into Spanish. Beware the enchantment legends -of a princess who lives in the bluffs awaiting the suitor who can withstand all temptation other than she waiting still no lover able to resist
Ode to the Ode
Posted in Dance, Music, Poetry on October 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; Then let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door, She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar. – From John Keats, Fancy, 1820
He had your laugh
Posted in Connection, Moon/moonlight, Music, Relationships on March 15, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Within a few words, I placed the accent, the telltale rhythm and cadence of a homeland no longer my home.
What Comes Next
Posted in Emotions/Inner World, Friendship, Healing, Love, Music on January 27, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s tears came unexpectedly – as expected – while Nanci Griffith sang about love tried and failed, tried again. “Once stilled by love he was bound to roll on by.” It gets me every time.