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Another January

January 15, 2022 Marlena Maduro Baraf

Photo by Angele Camp on Unsplash

Please forgive me while I clear my throat…

petulant petals pity party

Are we in purgatory?

I met with my besties on Zoom yesterday. Friends of many years, some living at significant distances. They’re listless, unfocused, cranky. Our world has shrunk again. O M I C R O N. It sounds like the plague.

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In Corona Diary, Diversity, Families, Soy/Somos, The Arts Tags the old year, the new year, forgive ourselves, Sarah Ruhl, poetry, resolutions, soy/somos, Latinos, Marjorie Agosín, Robert Bly, Langston Hughes
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Corona Diary #17 - Start the Year Fresh

December 23, 2020 Marlena Maduro Baraf
This photo (solar eclipse Aug. 21, 2017) reminds me of more carefree times. (Isabelle, Mark, and me in Northern California.) Here’s wishing good excitement for us all in 2021.  

This photo (solar eclipse Aug. 21, 2017) reminds me of more carefree times. (Isabelle, Mark, and me in Northern California.) Here’s wishing good excitement for us all in 2021.  

Dear readers and friends--I wish you peace, hope, and love in these end days of a painful year.

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In Corona Diary, Families Tags Holidays; 2020, covid19, the new year, e-mail bankrupcy, Corona diary
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What will you allow yourself to be open to?

December 29, 2019 Marlena Maduro Baraf

We are vulnerable. Let’s celebrate this fact of life. The hurt, the anger, the noticing, the love. It’s never about perfection. Perfection covers up all the interesting things about being human.

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In Book Reviews, Memoirs Tags At the Narrow Waist of the World, the new year, 2020, looking to 2020, writing process, writing community
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