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Joy Springs Up in Unexpected Places

February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Do you know the sound the cartoon dog makes when he shoots his head straight up and suddenly becomes aware of something? And his warm, sweet and goofy awareness changes everything and comically moves the story forward? Well – I am making that sound – dumb lovable feisty me. I am suddenly aware that I […]

Get Busy Livin’

February 19, 2014 · 1 Comment

“Life presses upon us, forever challenging us with new forms of vitality that threaten the status quo which feels so good with its stability and peace. Religions seem to hate Pan and his vitality. Often, they prefer the death principle. Let things be as they always have been. No intrusions of vitality, please. I think […]

Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2014 · 1 Comment

I do not fit snugly into a world built on principles of clock time and corporeal senses alone. I may appear eccentric if I write about things like “straddling eternity.” But it is in the effemera I feel most hardy. My strength seems to build upon itself in the light of my spirit.  What do […]

Tête-à-Tête

January 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“Beauvoir lent Maheu a recent English novel she had enjoyed, The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen. She admired its independent heroine, Iris Storm. Maheu did not. ‘I have no liking for women of easy virtue,’ he told her. ‘Much as I like a woman to please me, I find it impossible to respect any woman […]

Emotions are like Black & White Cookies

December 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Have you ever had a Black and White cookie? It is the official baked good of Manhattan and perhaps some places in New Jersey as well. It is a soft cake-like cookie the size of a newborn’s head. On top it is iced with both a chocolate and vanilla icing and has a striking hard […]

Pass the bread please

November 30, 2013 · 1 Comment

Self-Love is the bread of life. Bread,  Original Watercolor by Linda Dallas                           http://www.appetite4art.com/linda_dallas_notecard_103.htm I am getting used to taking care of myself again. I did it before I was married. A burst of tears erupts as missing Michael pushes forward. He had my back. Who has my back now asks my tears? I must have my […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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