Materfamilias Writes

Walking, Listening, Remembering (Or: Icon, OOTD, Flowers of Hope)

Walking, Listening, Remembering (Or: Icon, OOTD, Flowers of Hope)

Another post in my “Walking, Wearing Listening” series — and the podcast in my ears for this neighbourhood walk was about an amazing 92-year-old woman, a Holocaust survivor who is also an Italian Senator-for-life. I hope you’ll find as much inspiration as I did in her story.

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Tea,Teddies, Memories, and Snail Mail: Art Play doing Memory work

Tea,Teddies, Memories, and Snail Mail: Art Play doing Memory work

So . . . . I first posted about my little Tea-themed project of 2021 back in early February — that post includes a tea-themed page from the January 3rd entry of my sketch journal.…

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Money Memoir. . . Stories from Childhood. . .

Money Memoir. . . Stories from Childhood. . .

Here’s the excerpt I referred to last post, from Carmen Machado’s brave and moving memoir about a passionate lesbian love that slid confusingly into abuse, that left her disoriented and doubting herself, the experience exacerbated…

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Time and Skunk Cabbage Wait for No WoMan (or Covid, for that matter)

Time and Skunk Cabbage Wait for No WoMan (or Covid, for that matter)

Those of us fortunate enough to be #StayingHome have lost many or most or all of the markers that distinguish one day from another. . . And some of us are finding the time that…

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Time, Travel. . . Back to Paris While Sheltering in Place. . . Art for the Spirit

Time, Travel. . . Back to Paris While Sheltering in Place. . . Art for the Spirit

This photo of American artist Kiki Smith’s stunning tapestries displayed in a sumptuous room in Paris’s La Monnaie has garnered more “likes” on my Instagram feedthan anything else I’ve ever posted, by far. and it…

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