RoseBear Believes
RoseBear
- Location
- North Country, New York, USA
- Birthday
- February 08
- Bio
- Solitary, vaguely misogynistic, but friendly. I have a big heart. I take in strays, love kids, feed the birds, welcome wild plants in amidst the hybrids, and have an affinity for the strange.
MY RECENT POSTS
- One Love : Part One
January 17, 2009 10:31AM - The Man in the Chair
January 13, 2009 08:24AM - Little Janelle and Ezra the
Chicken Man
January 11, 2009 10:26AM - Our First Night Back
January 10, 2009 09:23AM - Here on the Ragged Edge of
Motherhood
January 04, 2009 01:32PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “this broke my heart.
THANK YOU for posting
it.”
February 15, 2009 10:06AM - “Rosebear waddles out of
her hibernation cave hiddden
deep in
the snowbound
mounta…”
January 31, 2009 09:21AM - “you sum up the idolatry
of consumerism so succinctly.
lovely.
i laughed.
this…”
January 14, 2009 08:01AM - “this is great. love all
the details. and you have some
great
one-liners in
ther…”
January 13, 2009 08:11PM - “actually, i have not
forgiven him. that chair was
used as an
excuse for bad
beha…”
January 13, 2009 08:06PM
RoseBear's Links
One Love : Part One
I have an inadvertent relationship with Bob Marley's song 'One Love' and my visits to Jamaica. I will try to explain it here, in two part harmony, if you will.
It was my second trip to beautiful, poverty prone, top murder rate in the world Jamaica. I travel with a… Read full post »
When I was a kid, our house had a ramp. None of my friends' houses had ramps. We had extra-wide doorways and hallways. (In fact, when I looked at this house to buy it -- it has a very similar layout to my childhood home -- this thought came to me… Read full post »
Little Janelle and Ezra the Chicken Man
Last July at the children's home in Jamaica. It's been a hot week. Up here in the mountains, at least there is usually a breeze, but it can be a hot wind, and sometimes sitting in the shade is the only relief. The dogs know that, the kids know that, and… Read full post »
~~Note: This post is a continuation of an earlier one entitled "Getting Back to Jamaica".
The children's home sits atop a hill, much like a castle might sit, commanding the vista, with views to the 4 directions. The roadway up there winds around that hill. It is an unpaved p… Read full post »
So, I figured something out yesterday. I figured it out without trying to, as my body, faithful beast of burden, mopped the salt and grime from the church hall floor. That's one of my jobs, cleaning the church. It doesn't pay much, but it pays. And I get a weekly lesson… Read full post »
As the eve of 2000 approached, and people hoarded and stock piled food, drink, clothing, and ammo in anticipation of chaos descending because computers world wide would not be able accommodate all those zeros, or so it was rumored, a group of us stood out in the snow behind the domestic… Read full post »
christmas lights
if i saw that star,
huge blazing mass
of fiery light falling
down from the dark of God’s deepest heart,
i might throw myself down to clutch the earth,
its safe and heavy mass of solid form like the body
of my mother when i ran and hid from scary men and
in my hands would be
the crumbling/… Read full post »
I understand poverty because I live poverty. Officially. My income numbers, as a single mother, are bona fide poverty numbers. We qualified for reduced price school lunches and medicaid. My daughter gets a fine financial aid package from the expensive private school she very d… Read full post »
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