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Nov.25.2011
The egrets were flying. The tree was bending. I happened to be there, camera poised. One click was all it took.
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Oct.19.2011
Not all ghosts are frightening, and some may not even be human. I discovered this at 4 a.m. two years ago when I met the White Cat.
I typically visit my small bathroom, awash in the diffused light of a street lamp and sometimes the moon, several times between dusk and daybreak. Washing my...
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May.04.2011
My first job at age 17 was writing for pay. It was 1965, and I was hired to write a weekly humor column for three newspapers after my work was featured on the New York City radio show of humorist Jean Shepherd.
From the age of 17 until roughly five years ago, I earned my living (in sequence) by my...
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Jul.14.2010
A few years ago, I was attending a gala luncheon with some alumni from the University where I worked. The conversation turned to music, and several of the alumni laughed about how great it would be if their kids liked classical music. "Well," I added, between forksful of quiche, "...
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Dec.30.2009
Sun streaming through lace curtainsThis icy winter's dayWarms spirit, hands, cat,All the tools that round me lay
In the former bedroom of aChild grown, now on her own,I close sweater tight, sip tea, and think ofPleasures mine alone.
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Nov.04.2009
My favorite bookstore in the 1960s was Acres of Books, which moved from East Hanover St. to West State Street in Trenton, New Jersey. It was here, as a teenager, that I discovered not only the magic of literature (which I had already experienced in the public library), but also the romance of 19th...
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Oct.29.2009
Costumes are an effective way to keep women out of religious life. You don't need Halloween to put on a hat, beard, skirt, and wave a stick, and establish yourself as a religious leader. Sad to say, the beard has to be real, so a woman can't put on, say, Groucho glasses with a mustache, and call...
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Oct.27.2009
I am really overblogged! There's my normal blog at www.ReligiousScholar.com. Then there are other blogs floating around cyberspace. I probably won't use this one very often. But who knows!
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About Linda
As Simone Marnier, I am the author of two published novels on Daoist spirituality, one of which has been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones La Llave in Spain. My first collection of poetry (by Linda Brown Holt) is The Lilac Thief, and I...
Causes Linda Holt Supports
WWFM the Classical Network.
SKY Foundation.
Yoga Research Society.
New Jersey Audubon Society.
Linda’s Favorite Books
Translations of Daoist classics by Thomas Cleary. Translations of Chinese poetry by Bill Porter. Sherlock Holmes. The Journals of H.D.Thoreau, novels of Le...