Holiday Gifts Received:
-a new camera. Yay.
-a pair of NukNuuk slippers, footware so comfortable another owner actually wrote an ode to them.
-a gigantic white, scented candle
-a tall glass vase crammed with apricots soaked in amaretto-liquor
-a yellow tablecloth with a red rooster motif
-microwavable teatowels
-a crate of imported Moroccan clementines
-lavender hand cream and lime-colored liquid hand soap
-green dangly earrings (from me to me)
-two poems, by email, from a haiku poet acquaintance, out of the blue
-a hand-painted Christmas card
-a friend's recently published book
-our cat Nikki, in my lap, her final gesture of affection, touch of paw extended
before the unexpected, unwanted--devastatingly difficult for us--Relinquishment
and
-Consciousnesses, too detailed and/or impossible to articulate
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Some photos I'd like to share:
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| Bike path, Burlington, VT, first snowfall, two days ago (photos by Luis L.Tijerina) |
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| Lake Champlain waterfront, Burlington VT |
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| Burlap again, a favorite remembered walkpath |
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| my neighborhood (T-R, Quebec), yesterday ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Note: she is not a footnote some things take time to talk about: _______________________________________________________ BYE, NIKKI
Des bons souvenirs:  
   
See ya, Nik.
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It's not fair
I got to hold her one last time &
Our Nikkiyou didn't.
here for years and then suddenly
not.
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