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Musings On The Passing Scene | Carolyn North Books

Musings . . .

on the passing scene

IN VERMONT

IN VERMONT for Deb, Leon and James I awoke this morning to the soft silence of green shade in the room where my brother lived and died, on the farm where Deb and I will harvest early potatoes today and where—except for the beauty of this place and the blessed quiet I...

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Freeflow Stories

Today I have exciting news! My upcoming book, Freeflow Stories, the newest edition of Musings on the Passing Scene, will be coming out THIS SUMMER, 2022. I wish it to be the perfect balm for these weird times. Little humorous essays about real life, perfectly true,...

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My Family History

I am still steeped in my recollections of the past, my own and the world's, and trying to hold fear at bay as fire season in the West comes closer, with wildfires already burning in the Southwest—and it is only May! My friends in Santa Fe have been manning the...

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Soul Dance

These days, as I delve deep into my past, I remember… At 15, I was longing to dance but my parents would not permit it. Why? I suspect it was fear; they were from the “don't run, you'll fall; don't swim, you'll drown” generation. So I secretly applied for a summer job...

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Patriarchs as Pedophiles

for Zucu and Eric Yesterday morning, I was talking with a friend about her difficult issues with her father, and was sadly reminded of my own. Later in the day I happened to pick up an article about pedophilia in the Catholic Church—celibate priests (called Fathers)...

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The Stones Speak

Kercado, Brittany. 1984 In the early 1980s, I saw a picture of the passage mound at Kercado in Brittany, France and I recognized it, with no idea why. I had never even been in Brittany. It wasn’t only familiar, but I felt an odd sadness and an urge to...

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Loving Franco

I was 20 when I left home for my first adventure abroad, and brought with me a backpack containing only one change of clothes, a poncho for rain, sandals for sun, a journal to write in, and my flute. With a scholarship to study Medieval Art History awaiting me in...

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Comfort and Care

Oops! I made another mistake: I spoke out of turn, stepped on your foot, forgot to show up for an appointment, hurt your feelings.  This time I didn’t do it on purpose, but sometimes I do, that’s how mad or jealous I can be. There are times I just project my own...

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SAVING GRACE

for Nassim Haramein and Gregg Braden These past weeks I have been taking an online course in the new Science with the geologist Gregg Braden and the physicist Nassim Haramein who, for the past 30 years, have been working together to understand Einstein's predictions...

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REAL MAGIC

In early Spring, four years after Herb died, I went canoeing with a good friend in Northern Vermont—illegally, as it happened, since it was before the official opening of the season—but the air was soft and the sun warm when we set out, so we chanced it. Wendy is an...

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Carolyn North

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