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To Make Something Beautiful

November 18, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

I don’t know about you, but it’s always hard to see the last leaves fall. Here in Portland, we still have a lot of stunning color, but the winds and rain are here in earnest, and the leaves won’t be around for long. We’ve been taking long walks with Fly, our dog, and when we come … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, People, The Writing Life Tagged With: Beauty, cancer, Mary Oliver, Memoir, Personal Essays, Story Circle Book Review, Susan J. Tweit, Thanksgiving

Stillness and Scarecrows

October 1, 2013 By Susan Troccolo

On a lonely road between Redfield and Gettysburg... Sometimes just knowing that this place exists—a field of sunflowers in late September on a lonely road between Redfield and Gettysburg in South Dakota; an old white clapboard Church and a few gravestones—is enough. Today it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Friends, Life, People, Travel Tagged With: articulated scarecrow, autumn images, how to build a scarecrow, Mary Oliver, South Dakota, stillness, Susan Troccolo

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