http://travistamerius.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://travistamerius.com/2011/07/04/grandma-winnie/#comment-328 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:57:54 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/grandma-winnie/#comment-328 I love your memories of your grandma and the family she presided over. My Grandma grew up in Kansas too, but left for Alaska as a young school teacher to see the world and never moved back home.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-308 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:20:07 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-308 Long overdue Annie but thanks for stopping by. And thanks for giving care to the use of language in trying to express the inexpressible. Your poetry was an act of redemption and reminded me of a story Thomas Lynch tells in The Undertaking. He writes of an undertaker who stayed up all night to care for a brutally murdered girl. It was an gesture of love to redeem the memory of the girl (and her body) from the final act of desecration. Thanks again for your excellent poem.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-303 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:18:21 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-303 Thank you so much for posting my poem, Travis. When I wrote the poem, part of my heartbreak was that the act of writing it felt so feeble in the face of the enormity of the tragedy. But every time we share a remembrance, we keep someone alive. Whenever I see that someone has shared the poem it reminds me that yes, our words have power. Yes, our remembrances have power. And that
Love. Always. Wins.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-300 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:39:08 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-300 Very moving poem. Thanks!

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/07/18/u2-in-st-louis/#comment-297 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:19:31 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/u2-in-st-louis/#comment-297 I was there at the concert too; it was epic. The crowd went wild during “With or Without You”. It was one of the best nights of my life.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-292 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:47:16 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/for-the-falling-man-by-annie-farnsworth/#comment-292 Very nice poem about a very intense photo. It never gets any less intense. Great work!

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/07/the-summer-day/#comment-290 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:03:59 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/the-summer-day/#comment-290 The picture was taken at the Lake of the Ozarks on one of our recent nights of stunning sunsets.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/09/07/the-summer-day/#comment-288 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:56:16 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/the-summer-day/#comment-288 Lovely picture. Which lake is that?
Thank you for introducing me to that poem on this day, and at this place in my life.

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/08/24/faded-memories/#comment-284 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:33:48 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/faded-memories/#comment-284 Beautiful pictures,beautiful children, and beautiful memories, I’m sure. I like the softened, retro quality of the images. How wonderful that you found that roll of film!

]]> http://travistamerius.com/2011/07/19/the-tree-of-life-reflections/#comment-283 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:09:47 +0000 https://travistamerius.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-tree-of-life-reflections/#comment-283 This is a wonderful review!!

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