The Evergreen Journal #43_ The Evergreen Stairway – Stop!

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As I move closer to the completion of this year, I discover that living an evergreen-type of life brings me to some thoughts about what it all means on a day-to-day basis.
As I move closer to the completion of this year, I discover that living an evergreen-type of life brings me to some thoughts about what it all means on a day-to-day basis.

 I think of this like stepping onto an  Evergreen Stairway.

I can break it down into three steps that help me daily. I began to think about when I first realized that in just three little steps, I could start making significant changes that are practical and easy to remember. 

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Garden Songs ~ A Winter Dream in Green

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BREAKING NEWS

this book is currently in production at Perkins Library, for distribution  through the library and through NLS (BARD). Narrator:  Polly Slavet.

(Polly also narrated my book Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, DLD Books 2017.)

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From Lynda’s Journal – A Dream of Drawing in the Dark ~

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we now have a very early twilight and night descending. By 5:30 pm, it’s dark!  It makes no sense to me to do this time change – we still get up in the dark, and now, we have one less hour in our afternoon before it gets dark. In my writing over the decades, darkness is a recurring theme. I focus on dark and darkness a lot in all seasons and it is a metaphor that shows up consistently in my poetry often.

I wrote this poem about drawing one night when I was in my room at  a farm house, Bachmannhof , in Grödig, Austria. I lived there every summer for fourteen years.

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