Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Postcards

Cards

Photo: August 22, 2016

What a treat to come home to all these postcards - from different people and different places. Before I left on my trip I got involved in #CLMOOC and one way the group has of connecting is via postcards. Although we collaborated on a variety of projects which were in a constant state of evolution as each brought their own ideas and talents and connected through learning about each other through introductions, there is something special about having something in your hand, something tangible.

I'll be sending some out shortly and will certainly be keeping my eyes peeled for interesting postcards to buy and send. From me to you, from you to me - a very direct connection.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Looking Back

Grodno School

I'm looking back at history
Preserved by others
Sunday we went to celebrate
One hundred years of a life
A relative of my spouse
Looking back

My mother would have turned that number
Last year
I explore her history through artifacts
This picture comes from a book of postcards
Dating from the 1920s
Around the time she left Eastern Europe
And came to Canada
Looking back

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Grodno the city of her birth
Once Russia, Poland now Belarus
What else has changed?
So many stories never shared
So much not recorded.
Lives before Facebook and selfies
Looking back

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Life pictured through idyllic images
Idealized,
Who knows the truth behind the scenes
Much to reconstruct
To decipher
Looking back

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My personal challenge - to write a poem every day (or post one that I love) for April - poetry month