Saturday, November 9, 2013

subtle influence. . .

Gazing upon and reacting to Candice Swanepoel in this sheer wedding lingerie one man, Aaron Armando, was altered by her appearance. What it meant to him to look at her so delicately adorned with softness was summed up in his words, "This makes me doubt my idea of marriage."  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.8.13

Ra Intwy Damaleya
larger than life...
April 27, 2013


I went to high school with a girl who dreamed like this. I thought she came from my dreams back then so my descriptions of her are hazy with the spell she cast upon me then. Karen Bailey. That was her name. After all these years she knocks on my father's door a day after Mommy's funeral (4.13.13) to give us condolences. I didn't recognize her at first. It was her voice and eyes that gave her away.

She was a woman. Old enough to be a grandmother she had a 12 year old daughter which shocked me. We talked quite a while in the living room about ideas which, she reminded me, was what we talked a lot about in high school. So under her spell then I'd forgotten those talks.

Well, I'd married well, and she was a mother taking care of her own mother, and the good feeling between us was still present; older, but present. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.29.13






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