Tag: sweetness
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January 11, 2022
When I was a kid, I would sometimes receive the special treat of candy made from maple sugar. The candy came in different, enchanting shapes—leaves, flowers, people. Maple candies figure in The Beatryce Prophecy. A few days after Christmas, I received a package from Sophie Blackall who made the art for Beatryce’s story. Inside the…
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July 17, 2012
Yesterday, I sat on the back steps with Henry and ate a peach. It was a very good peach and I shared some of it with Henry; and then I put the peach pit on the top steps and went off to move the sprinkler and when I came back, a gigantic moth was perched…
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January 19, 2012
On a signboard in front of the Mel-O-Glaze donut shop: “If you want sweet, give sweet.” I love these words. I have repeated them over and over . . . as an admonishment, a reminder, a truth. I have said the words at the grocery store, in traffic, at the post office. I have spoken…
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August 9, 2011
Sunday morning, crabby, distracted, grumbling to myself, I opened the front door and found a bowl of peaches on the front step. “Not deserving, I do not deserve, not deserving at all,” that was the grumpy mantra in my head as I looked down at the peaches. But there they were. . . August light,…