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7 October 2024

Posted on October 7, 2024 by girasoleazzurra

 I woke up at 5:30am this morning, not that unusual but this time it was the Difficult Leg that drove me out of bed, not the Need of the Bathroom, although that was present, too. So I decided to continue … Continue reading →

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tea in England

Posted on February 4, 2024 by girasoleazzurra

from August 2002, 22 years ago August 2002, I am just returned from a fortnight in London, and it was lovely. There is always good tea in London. Every place I visited – and nearly every lunch hour was spent … Continue reading →

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IWroteAPoem

Posted on July 28, 2023 by girasoleazzurra

It is a Victory When the darkness inside you Turns from Violence To Violet. GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido, 16 July 2023 In bed this early morning, this poem came to me as fragments of words then sentences. I wrote it down … Continue reading →

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People need celebration

Posted on April 10, 2023 by girasoleazzurra

I am sharing this today, April 10, 2023. I wrote this in 2011, before cancer, before a lot of things. This is Holy Week, and Passover, and spring. It matters. GirasoleAzzurra/The LadyHawk 23 April 2011 @ 06:51 pm Sacred spring … Continue reading →

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Words Are All We Have: A Very Brief Disquisition on Librarians, Technology, Access, Feminism, and The Truths of Things

Posted on March 9, 2023 by girasoleazzurra

Oxford University, England, & California Librarians November 6, 1997 Some wise person has said — I may have said it myself — that words are all we have. I have made my living with words, one way or another, for … Continue reading →

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For Nana, written for my grandmother’s memorial, May 2003

Posted on August 18, 2022 by girasoleazzurra

Written for my grandmother’s memorial, in May 2003 What makes us human is that we know we will die. What makes us human is that we know we will live forever, in our families, in our children, in the memories … Continue reading →

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The Red Studio: Art was a language, and you could learn it

Posted on July 7, 2022 by girasoleazzurra

When I was in seventh and eighth grade, at St Frances of Rome school in the early 1960s, once a week a teacher came to visit who wasn’t a nun. She had a rich Spanish accent and an exotic history … Continue reading →

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farewell, beloved scent

Posted on March 28, 2022 by girasoleazzurra

Comme des Garçons was (and is) a perfume that introduced in 1994, a year when I was the editor-in-chief of a small professional magazine, a shopper of some repute, and at what turned out to be the height of my … Continue reading →

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Ten things you need to know about online classes, with a little help from the yellow submarine

Posted on August 19, 2021 by girasoleazzurra

(by GraceAnne A. DeCandido, for my graduate classes at Rutgers 8/2009) 1.The Long and Winding Road: Taking a class online is more work than an in-person class. You have to read more and faster, interact with your classmates more, log … Continue reading →

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Zucchini blossoms/Pumpkin flowers

Posted on August 8, 2020 by girasoleazzurra

Zucchini blossoms / pumpkin flowers, first published in 2015 or so. When I was a child, these were an extraordinary summer treat, almost magical, because no one I knew except our relatives ever made them. I made them today, and … Continue reading →

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