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Caption: At 66,
She Finally
Met Her Match By Meri Aaron Walker,
aka, iPhoneArtGirl
Caption: 6 AND 1/2 DECADES is a long time to live.
Longer, for me, so far,
than anyone in my
immediate family.
Caption: I have had
a wild-ride-of-a-life.
No compromises,
running full-out,
reaching for
what I want...
receiving and failing,
in full measure.
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Caption: SO when you
walked into
MY LIFE
last summer,
I was busy
with my life...
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Caption: I had been learning
for the last decade
from my myriad mistakes.
And I was satisfied
to keep learning
that way...
on my own,
with great friends.
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Caption: "We Are Always
Inside of
Each Other" 2016
Caption: I wasn't looking for
one more partner
to rescue me from
my incorrigible petulance.
In fact, I was doing my best
to enjoy it on my own.
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Caption: But you started texting...
and then sending me lobsters.
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Caption: And, in the depth of winter,
you invited me to escape
the dark with you - in Jamaica.
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Caption: "There's A Fair Wind, Blowing Warm Out of the South, Over My Shoulder, Guess I'll Set My Course And Go"
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Caption: I flew back East again and took a good look at who you said you'd been...
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Caption: ...and learned even more
about your wild creativity.
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Caption: "She Agreed to Go Away With Him."
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Caption: By the time we got back to NYC,
we had fallen in love.
Caption: 3 WEEKS LATER you flew out to Oregon
to see my world for a week...
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Caption: ... that turned into a longer stay.
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Caption: IN 3 SHORT TRIPS, you have witnessed me in
every dimension of myself
available to anyone but myself.
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Caption: Making coffee this morning - after we woke too early -
I was thinking how glad I was
not to be the one flying all day.
Caption: NOW, as your plane flies
north and then east,
I'm anything but
certain about that.
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Caption: Your departure leaves me
in the borderland:
in the space and the overlap
between outer and inner self.
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Caption: Today, I get to feel your absence. Over and over. Here. From my world.
Caption: Until this morning,
I didn't understand
what you meant
when you said
your house felt so empty
when I left twice before.
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Caption: Despite the blue skies
here this morning,
it feels like a dense cloud
has slipped across the sun.
And I am so cold.
Caption: Across the boundaries
of outer and inner self,
I am profoundly changed
by your witness, David.
Namaste, dear one.
Keep warm.
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Caption: IPHONEARTGIRL Original #iphoneography
#iphoneonly #creative
© 2017, Meri Aaron Walker,
Talent, OR. All rights reserved.
Excerpted from upcoming books.
Images available on a
variety of materials.
Come along! I do mobile art
and creativity workshops:
http://iPhoneArtGirl.com/want_more