Snapshots – Melinda VanRy

Identity, Photos, Snapshots, Writing

Another summer winding down

/ September 3, 2021

Two-year-old Facebook-post black-and-white selfie that’s meant to not look like a selfie… It’s worth sharing the words again. But I can’t just copy and paste here, because it’s not where I am now.…

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Anyway…

/ April 19, 2020

That’s a phrase I use a lot... A transition. Or braking to shift gears, or make a turn...

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Sunlight

/ April 7, 2020

The sunlight dazzles my eyes so they ache deciphering black words on a white page. Like other things we love, it can hurt.

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Blog, Identity, Memoir, Snapshots

Fifty Years in the Future Forty Years Ago

/ April 1, 2020

The future was bright and my possibilities endless. Yes, the world looked different when I was nine, but I was figuring things out.

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For What

/ November 15, 2019

I stare at the screen. I stare at nothing. My head is full of leaden cotton. Heavy. Muffled. I want to sleep. I need to wake. But for what?

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Blog, Identity, Snapshots

This Moment

/ September 19, 2019

A pileated woodpecker makes his presence known, chortling over the carriage house. Like a cat, I follow the languorous patch of sunlight. This is the moment I'm living. Are you living your moment?

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