Category: Olivia and Gabriel
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Guess Where These Two Pickles Are?
and how many candies have they had!
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Last Night, This Morning
Last night, I spent the evening with Gabriel. After some stories, painting, dinner, and conversation, I held him in my arms until he was fast asleep. In the morning, after kicking off the blankets he rolled over and said, “Vavie,…
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A Rose by Gabriel
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II) Velvet petals, moving as the sea — waves rising above earth and thorn — releasing a fragrance that swoons above the stars,…
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A Child’s Space
A child’s universe is vast, led by senses —shaping air into worlds of wonder. A chair isn’t a chair;it’s a ship, a mountain, a fortress. A word sings, expands —keys to chambers of poems and philosophy,where even caterpillars stand and…
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Cezanne- Little Artists
Cézanne painted more than a bushel of apples, returned 80 times to the same view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, and captured his gardener more than once—always circling the familiar, always finding something new. “With an apple, I will astonish Paris.”— Paul…