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Achilles Heel

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Nancy Wait

If you woke up with a pain in your heel… Continue reading →

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Time Pieces

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Nancy Wait

Time. It’s always time and there’s never enough. Except when there’s too much in this place where we’re all doing time. Time me, ti-me, tie-me-to-time. Or let the battery run out, let the ticking stop. But not my heart. Let … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Blood, Body and Spirit

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Nancy Wait

“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.” Continue reading →

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Prayer, 08.08 Portal

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Nancy Wait

God, grant me the insight to realize that everything I see/read/hear online (and everywhere else for that matter) is the result of the particular frequency of the one posting. It’s a level of perception, nothing more, nothing less. A viewpoint, … Continue reading →

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Making Your Unknown Known

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Nancy Wait

When I went to London in the late 1960s I brought a sword with me on the plane. (It was allowed in those days.) I was bringing it over for a friend. Seven years later, when it became time for … Continue reading →

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What Drawing Does

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Nancy Wait

While I’ve heard people say, “Oh, I can’t draw to save my life,” or, “I can’t even draw a straight line,” I’ve never heard anyone say, “I can’t connect things with each other,” because of course we do, all the time, albeit unconsciously. Continue reading →

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That Emma, That Torch

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Nancy Wait

I went to the library and had a coffee at the concession stand in what unbeknownst to me had now become ‘Emma’s Torch Café.’ ‘Emma’s Torch,’ could it be that Emma…that torch? Continue reading →

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The Art of Distilling

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Nancy Wait

I was in Prague, “the Magical City,” or because it’s rare that I attend a live concert, I seemed to be hearing on another level, analyzing my enjoyment in a different way, having a different insight into what I was hearing through this filter of music. Continue reading →

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A Bag and a Bunch of Cards

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Nancy Wait

In the poem, Harlem, Langston Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” He wonders, “Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” He suggests other, less appetizing fates. Meanwhile, I bided my time. I waited until my carpet bag so bulged with hope that it had to become a reality. Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Nancy Wait

“And now let us welcome the New Year, full of things that never were.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Continue reading →

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