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Details Bearing Gifts

Details dovetail into important gifts

Jan 16

A photo collage of two Tiger Eye stones mirroring each other. Each stone has striations of gold, walnut brown, black, and dark brown.

Jan 16

Alone at Christmas?

I watched a Christmas concert on PBS last week. The large choir and orchestra lent majesty to melodies from my childhood. I sang those same…

Dec 23, 2024

Alone at Christmas?

Dec 23, 2024

Thinking is Better, Much Better

The Center Step Has Gone Missing

Dec 21, 2021

Young Asian woman seated, thinking, in empty bleachers or stadium

Dec 21, 2021

Viral Voyage: The Interruption Can Be the Change

Thank you, followers and friends, for patience. If you’re chronically ill, interruptions can derail your routine, even your life. Or the…

Nov 3, 2021

Viral Voyage: The Interruption Can Be the Change

Nov 3, 2021

Viral Voyage: The Anniversary Awakens

Here’s my pre 9/11 post. It’s about anniversaries that need a different name. Has one of these anniversaries happened to you?

Sep 18, 2021

Crystal ball with green, blue, red, and orange rays of light spiraling around it. Black background.

Sep 18, 2021

This Viral Voyage Breaks for Anniversaries and Interruptions

First, thank you to my new followers! I’m recording my viral voyage because I believe there needs to be one entire record somewhere that…

Sep 16, 2021

This Viral Voyage Breaks for Anniversaries and Interruptions

Sep 16, 2021

Viral Voyage: Circumstances, Choices, Carelessness & Care

My surgery was scheduled for 2 p.m. the day after I was brought out of the coma. A nurse explained I would be given propofol, fentanyl and…

Aug 11, 2021

Black and white photo of shadows of trees criss-crossing a field of snow. The shadow of a human figure is in the lower right-hand corner of the picture.

Aug 11, 2021

Viral Voyage: Prayer Matters

I was raised by parents with graduate degrees in theology, whose understanding of Christianity embraced intellect, heart, and soul. Their…

Jul 20, 2021

A photo of white clouds in the shape of wings in a dark blue sky. The face and praying hands of a woman have been added with thin lines.

Jul 20, 2021

Viral Voyage: A Midstream Revival

The woman looked to be 5 feet 3 inches tall. Olive skin covered her bones. There was scant flesh on her frame. Her short, wiry grey hair…

Jun 25, 2021

Image of bare branches from trees in winter. The image has two parts. Each one mirrors the other. The branches grow outward and divide so that the remind you of the bronchial tubes and smaller tubes inside the lungs.

Jun 25, 2021

Ysabel de la Rosa

Ysabel de la Rosa

Poet, nonfiction writer, designer, translator, editor. Culture vulture. Survivor of medical mysteries. Dedicated to the arts of healing and understanding.

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