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    • Disability
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    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
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    • Feminism
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it’s a shy one
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it’s a shy one

written by Jana April 6, 2007

poppy, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Picture: close-up of an orange flower

I found this flower, a poppy I believe, in my neighbor’s garden. I just leaned over the fence and snapped this quick photo. It wasn’t quite open all the way, perhaps because the sun wasn’t shining today.

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Brooke April 7, 2007 - 1:18 am

Wow, this is probably my favorite one! And not just because I totally love orange. Perfect.

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jana April 7, 2007 - 2:16 am

I thought of you when I posted this one, figuring that you would be enchanted by the green & orange (the colors reminded me of your jellybean pix) :)

Oh, and there will be more ‘oranges’ coming soon….

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Christi April 10, 2007 - 10:04 pm

I’ve told you about Louise Gluck’s book of poetry, The Wild Iris? Here’s one of my favorites from it:
(Please delete if you don’t want this whole thing on your comment board!)

The Red Poppy

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet more than fifteen years ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, started a history podcast, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). For my 38th birthday and 25th anniversary of my bone cancer diagnosis, we (meaning me and you) bought legs for a young double-amputee from China. This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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