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Blog postAlways & Remembrance: are the two Willow Tree figures I have chosen in memory of two significant people in my life: my father, and one of my closest friends, who graduated to heaven five days apart. These two lovely figurines now have pride of place in my special cabinet to remind me daily of these […]
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Blog postPhoto artwork by Joanne Van Leerdam. June 24, 2020. Tears fall,Can’t stop them,Can’t hide them.You’re gone,Can’t bring youBack again.Why am I always the one who is feelingThe pain of the wrenching and tearing of leaving?Why must this pain be so raw deep inside of me?My heartMisses youDesperately.Please sayThat you won’tForget me.I can’t imagine my life…
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Blog postImage: Joanne Van Leerdam 2020 Vigour has yielded to frailty,Pain tarnishes every day,He longs to be free of his misery -?Oh! If one could wish suffering away! He despises his aged condition:When he stands, his body is bent;He cannot escape his suspicionThat the best of his days have been spent. His voice has grown soft…
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Blog postI generally love a good thunderstorm. Tonight, I appreciate it even more than usual. Growing up, I loved seeing Snoopy start his stories with “It was a dark and stormy night”. I used to giggle at that clichè long before I understood the deeper allusion to the fact that authors sometimes use the weather to […]
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Blog postOriginally posted on Shakespeare Nerd:
Macbeth, V.v This short speech by Macbeth is his response to the news that Lady Macbeth is dead. It is not as emotional as Macduff’s response to the death of his wife and children, but instead is quite poignant and philosophical. A soliloquy might have been more expansive on his… -
Blog postThis morning I used the term “on tenterhooks” and then wondered where it came from. It’s a term that means painful anticipation or being kept in suspense, commonly used by English speakers to describe any situation of tension or anxiety while waiting. I imagined something being suspended or hung up, waiting for something to happen— […]
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Blog postI wish I had known about ambiguous loss and anticipatory grief much earlier in my life.
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Blog postI’ve been absent. It seems that I haven’t just dropped the proverbial ball when it comes to blogging regularly, I’ve gone and lost the jolly thing.I last saw it a couple of weeks ago, when it bounced a couple of times before rolling away through some very prickly bushes and falling into a seemingly bottomless […]
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Blog postTeaching in front of a camera has given me— and, I’m sure, every other teacher out there — a unique insight into what our students see when we talk and interact with them. I have made some honest observations about myself during this time. I really do have RBF. Sorry, kids. I’m not annoyed or […]
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Blog postHow people respond to adversity speaks volumes about their character.
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