The umbilical cord story as screwed up to fictionalize

Silver Sunflowers and Buried Umbilical Cords; Ch. 1 “Your umbilical cord is buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico.”      My dead mother’s words echoed strangely through my bones and into my stomach, where they rattled around, reaching their sonar into my womb and whispering their strange chorus to the little girl growing there. Mom’s ghostly echo was…

STOP.

Turn around. Retrace. Note the path before the breadcrumbs scatter. Then you can take down this idiotic note to yourself that you’ve put up in public because you know it is that important. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.” Lewis Carroll

TWINS

Originally posted on Exact Words:
“Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain’t any real difference between triplets and an insurrection.”     -Mark Twain ?

Putin and Trump: they agree on so much. Especially on the particulars of their opinion of McCain… and its very Vietnam-centric core. (I would at least re-record my awful intro reading if I had saved the original)

Unnecessary update: One reason this is so awful is that it was hell trying to fit the translations into such narrow spaces. Until I made this, which pinned me into tight clips, time-wise, it never occurred to me that compared to Russian, English is incredibly roomy. (And Putin does not speak particularly fast. I wouldn’t…