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My Friend, The Parrot

Illness & Disabiliy, Op-Ed & Essay Jacqueline Raposo 7/1/16 Illness & Disabiliy, Op-Ed & Essay Jacqueline Raposo 7/1/16

My Friend, The Parrot

A parrot lives in my neighborhood. We have some things in common.

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“What a piece of wonder a river is.” (Thoreau, Sept 5, 1838) I’m ending an introspective year much where I started—alongside this morphing metaphor that reminds me answers, action, joy, overwhelm, congregation, stillness or aw

I got the keys to my Vermont burrow 1 year ago today. And what a year it has been, no? “Make haste slowly now.*” xoxo

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*Louisa May Alcott’s journals. I forget the date. Sometime in her childhood.

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1: The view of my

I feel enormous gratitude to the countless people who protested, fought and died for our right to vote, get an education, access healthcare, have financially independence and more. I mailed dozens of hand-written letters to young voters in NC and Ohi

Learned on PEI that “I’m so glad to live in a world where there are Octobers” was not in the first draft of Anne of Green Gables. (See slide 2 for the book’s manuscript version.) Surreal October, huh. Thank dog we get to edit

Finally meandering the red stone island that birthed the story that’s like comfort food to me. “It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.”

Will always be thankful for this trip.

When you the long way, stretching a 12-hour drive into 4 slow coastal days.

Made it to PEI/Abegweit by way of Rockport ME, Saint John NB, Fundy National Park, Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park and a charming houseboat in Charlottetown.

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