Here’s a quick study in contrasts with very little commentary because sometimes the pictures do the work of all the words.
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Poetics
Thirteen
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My son’s birthdays measure both his age in years and my own evolution in motherhood, which continues to be a breathtaking, exciting experience.
Read MoreCurrent Events
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I’ve posted pictures of the sky before, but I’ve never posted any of the ones I took in March of 2023. Here they are, all eight of them.
Read MoreEpigraph
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I’m pleased to announce that my translation of a Zbigniew Herbert poem has been featured in a book by Wojciech Sadurski.
Read MoreGood Mourning
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I took these photos in Copenhagen’s Vestre Cemetery and I love they way they reveal grief’s private, affectionate side.
Read MoreEarthshine
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Did you know that light can be reflected again and again, many times, illuminating the shadows with the sheer force of physics?
Read MoreYellow and Blue
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The war next door has me thinking about the symbolism of those energetic and hopeful Ukrainian colors. May they be a sign.
Read MoreConstructing a Heart
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A post on self-love in three parts, inspired by my adventures with paper folding and informed by my misadventures in love.
Read MoreForty-Four in Twenty-Two
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The end of one year has me taking stock of how I’ve been living. The first days of another bring me inspiration to invite what I desire.
Read MoreA Summer Scene
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A glimpse of white linen and periwinkle silk on an al fresco summer date inspires me to wonder why I am moved so deeply by this sight.
Read MoreWhat Tea Leaves
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Drinking tea is a daily habit of mine and a constant source of pleasure. In this essay I take a part-poetic, part-analytical line of inquiry.
Read MoreInterlude
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In this placeholder of a post I write absolutely nothing of any importance, yet I am inclined to think that this itself is quite telling.
Read MoreYear of Yes
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My celebration of this unusual year includes a dozen self-portraits I took today and some thoughts about the way 2020 was my time for change.
Read MoreIndependence
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To write what I want, about what I choose—this is independence. To photograph my city my way. To live on my own terms. Yes, in Warsaw.
Read MoreVenturing Out
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As pandemic polemics drown out all other noise, everything becomes part of that chorus. Here are a few of my quiet observations.
Read MoreYin Finds Yang
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Some connections are especially meaningful precisely because they are not deliberate. Here’s one linking two paintings by Agnieszka Zawisza.
Read MoreCelebration Song
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A boy’s ninth birthday inspires contemplation of how this unlikely milestone marks not just the child’s life but motherhood, too.
Read MoreNew York, New York
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Summing up a trip that transformed both a mom and a son is a task for mixed media, metaphor, and leaving some things unexplained.
Read MorePoems from Poland
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One of the ways I remember my father is through poems he loved and ones I wish we could have read together. Here is a handful.
Read MoreStorm at Midsummer
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On the evening of the summer solstice in 2018 the Warsaw sky revealed extremes befitting the occasion. Here’s what I observed.
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