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Flight Lesson – 11
Once upon a time I flew with a snow goose. When I was a little girl the snow goose would smooth the knots in my wild wings each night, and called me her Butterfly. I flitted and fluttered from thing to thing, switching crayons constantly, coloring outside the lines of life. The snow goose didn’t […]
Flight Lesson – 6
The four corners of the meadow stretched for 50 acres connecting four houses, like four pillars on “the road.” The four fathers of those four houses were the Titans of my meadow. Larger-than-life men, as seen through my child’s eyes, with single-sided personalities. The funny one, the generous one, the strong one, and the mean […]
Flight Lesson – 4
On Saturday nights the parents on “the road” would have parties. Sometimes my brother and I would get to be the greeters, or the coat bearers, but most Saturdays were spent with our grandmother. We would be dropped off at her house freshly scrubbed clean, and already in our pajamas, before 5pm. Grandma would greet […]
Flight Lesson – 2
I grew up in a Fairyland of no stranger danger, in a place defined as “the road.” Nurtured by a neighborhood of families, tied to each other by an umbilical cord of one long gravel road that strung all of our properties together. There were very few fences between us. The one’s that divided our […]
