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Jana Remy

  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
    • Social Media
      • Mentions/Links
  • Scholarship
    • Awards/Fellowships
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normal day…
deep thoughts

normal day…

written by Jana September 13, 2011

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.
-Mary Jean Irion

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amelia September 21, 2011 - 5:17 pm

Love this. And the roses. do you happen to know their name?

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janaremy September 21, 2011 - 5:47 pm

No, I don’t–these are from a ramble in a Pasadena park on a particularly not-normal & super-romantic day last April. :)

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amelia September 28, 2011 - 7:56 pm

You know, I do value my normal days. But having had quite a few particularly not-normal, super-romantic days lately myself, I do enjoy them, too. :)

And no surprise this beauty lives in Pasadena. Hopefully when I’m home in November I’ll make it up there. Doubtful there will be lots of roses, but there might be a few lingerers.

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janaremy September 28, 2011 - 11:10 pm

Amy: the H doesn’t trim back their roses until after the parade (Jan 1). They were unbelievable when I was there just 2 weeks ago…

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, 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). 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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