roots

i wear
my father’s face
and the face of his father
before him, wherever
it came from. to be
an american is to be
from everywhere.

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dydd gŵyl dewi

my maternal grandfather was welsh, so, for the past three or four years, we’ve celebrated st. david’s day and our welsh heritage with traditional welsh meals. since i was celebrating by myself this year i went all out and made a welsh breakfast in addition to a welsh dinner. i might not be very much…

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cause for celebration

this week there were two grand events worth celebrating. i hope you noticed your calendar and were therefore able to join in with your own commemorations. the first, as you can almost not have not noticed (er, what?), was on wednesday, february 29th. that’s right: leap day! well, i forgot to leap, i must admit…

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marvelous thing #1

today has been a beautiful, exciting, peaceful, relaxing day (for me, at least). it has rained a great deal of the day. i got to putter around a craft store with my mum. i got to sing songs to a beautiful Person with three amazingly talented people in rehearsal for the worship through music time…

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