Julie Saffrin

Poems for Life

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Today is Day 2 in the June 2015 Challenge in Pictures or Words. Not sure how I stumbled upon my favorite book of poems, Poems for Life, but I love the concept of its compilation. When I bought the book, The Nightingale-Bamford School was not on my radar. A quick look online and I learned it’s an all-girls prep school in Manhattan. According to the Teacher’s Note in the book, the origination of the idea behind this collection of poems came from a 1992 Irish anthology of poems entitled Lifelines. Lifelines had its beginnings in 1985 with Dublin students at Wesley College…

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Day 2 Favorite Flower for the Moments in May 2015 Challenge

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“Go down to Kew in lilac time (it isn’t far from London!) And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer’s wonderland.” Alfred Noyes Yes, my favorite flower is the fragrant lilac. My first memory of lilacs were the six-foot tall ones, hedgerow-like, that bordered our property from our neighbor, Betty Freundshuh, a widow who lived behind us. Though the bushes belonged to our neighbor, I couldn’t resist the allure of their sweet perfume and heart-shaped leaves. My pruning was that of quick tears and a race to my back door to give them to my mom. Immediately the…

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