A SECRET ADMIRER

is not so secret after all! 

Ah, to be called "beast" for 12 years and after all that time to find out he meant it as a compliment!

FOUND

I found this story that I wrote when I was 9. 

LIMERENCE

 

LIMERENCE

Why am I feeling all this great emotion?

Perhaps I am thinking of poor Mary,

Moving away after so long living

In a quietly familiar and convenient place.

Mary, audibly rocking and rocking in the

Same chair above me as she aged into invisibility…

And soon I too will leave this same place.

For how long did I live with illusions,

Locking away all transitory possibilities

And realities and choosing instead to

Dwell inside mercurial fantasies and

Interior delusions and then grounding a still life?

Now the fading obstacles hardly matter.

The grey heavy details carved and set in stones

Have been kicked away by newer shades

Of sharp pastels that do not even belong

To me in my particular smallness.

Fog is moving in from the Hudson River,

Passing over yesterday and all the

Layered stories and everything

That came… before.

© Marjorie J. Levine 2023

A JOURNEY REMEMBERED

To the readers: please scroll all the way down to see the end of the journey.

Hello "Maurice!"

But I went back to being a girl: 

THREE SADDEST ENDINGS EVER

NOW FOUR:

GO FORWARD

Mrs. Maisel goes forward:

at the Rubin Museum of Art, DEATH IS NOT THE END

museum link to the exhibit

I live right across the street from the Rubin Museum of Art, which has exhibits displaying paintings, statues, textiles and more from Tibet, Bhutan and other Asian lands. This exhibit, Death Is Not the End, is a cross-cultural exhibition that explores notions of death and afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity and features prints, oil paintings, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual items, and brings together 58 objects spanning 12 centuries from the Rubin Museum’s collection.

I was interested. I had studied Buddhism at Tibet House US with Robert Thurman. And I love the Rubin Museum of Art.

Tibet House US

And so tonight, I went. The exhibit is amazing and it is organized by themes. I will post at this blog some of the photos I took. Here they are: