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Love Your Mamma!

Change is in the air. Can you feel it?

I joined the massive, global Fridays for Future Climate Strike and March in Montréal last week, marching through the streets of our sunlit city with my dear friend Adri and close to half a million instant soul-mates, all wild children of the Planet Earth. Greta Thunberg was there, gracing us with her quiet radiance and uncompromising insight. She led us…

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I’m working on my Mom. burnsthefire.com #art #artistsoninstagram #motherdaughter #mothers #motherhood #drawing #collage #collageart #love #compassion #burnsthefire https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbmJ9ehgcx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vkfkrqytxa39

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The Sanctuary

I wasn’t thinking. I didn’t see it coming.

The sudden, violent impulse to weep. To sob uncontrollably, a rushing river of convulsing sorrow. To wail and tear my clothes. To throw myself to the ground.

In a blur, I feel the arm of my friend Jenny slip around my shoulders. She’s a Mom and must have intuited the roiling wave of grief before I knew it was there. I fumble for a kleenex to dam the…

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A new pal in #lisbon #lisboa🇵🇹 #portugal #oldtrees #writersofinstagram #tree #trees #treesofinstagram #inspiration #inspire #inspirational #treestalktome Butnsthefire.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMHJyPFfLG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sszx4r95bsq9

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I’m writing with a pencil and sharpener again. #writing #writer #writersofinstagram #writerslife #writerscommunity #seclusion #burnsthefire

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My Mom at 12, way older than her years. #mother #familyhistory #family #graduation #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #art #artistsoninstagram #jewishhistory #love #onlychild #burnsthefire

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His fingers were numb with cold as he wrote. #zanegrey #writersofinstagram #writing #writingcommunity #writer #write #collage #collageart #artistoninstagram #art #artwork #portrait #portraiture #burnsthefire

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I was named after my late, great-Aunt Bess. She was a free spirit, artistic, never married and died young. I have always wondered about what and who stirred her heart. I love you, Aunt Bess, though we never met, and I made this collage for you! Happy Women’s Day!! #happywomensday #happyinternationalwomensday #womenpower #feminism #feminism #feminist #freedom #freedom #freespirit #auntie #collage #art #artistoninstagram

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Sometimes there are no words. #lights #lighttheworld #darkness #vermont #landscape #landscapephotography #landscapelovers #nature #naturelovers #naturephotography #serenity #peace #peaceful #tranquility #reflection #burnsthefire

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All is well

My primo pal Joe is trying to leave the coffeeshop, but I block the door, won’t let him go. We’ve already shared a deep hug, a raisin-bran muffin and a crack chat about love and death, much of which I plan to use in the sprawling story I’ve been writing this past year about my coven of wise, old guys, but given that he had just told me he is – ready to go anytime, my voice raises an octave and I…

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You and #MeToo

This volcanic eruption of words about the patriarchy, rape culture, male entitlement, sexual abuse and harassment has left me enraged and inspired.

Every woman has a story. Many, so much worse than mine.

To date, this is what I remember:

I have been verbally and sexually harassed, talked down and mansplainedto, yelled at, interrupted, insulted, sworn at, silenced, followed too many times to…

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#selfie in Johnson, #vermont Burnsthefire.com #writing #writersofinstagram #writer #bliss #creative #photography #selfportrait #naturephotography #naturelovers #nature #photographer #photooftheday #peace #inspire #joy #burnsthefire

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It was a cold and rainy day when Felix stole my heart. Burnsthefire.com #summer #boysilove #boys #dance #lake #swimming #mountains #beauty #adolescents #teen #puberty #flamenco #nature #natureshots #naturephotography #photography #burnsthefire

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Bernie Sanders Wants You

Bernie Sanders Wants You

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

The time is now and America’s most popular politican Bernie Sanders has a crackerjack plan.

He lays it on the table with a bang-on, pitch-perfect speech he recently gifted us at the Riverside Church in NYC’s Upper West Side, at the exact same pulpit where Martin Luther King once rocked the house. It is a blockbuster of human rights. A practical guide to justice. A…

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I have many faces. Burnsthefire.com #sunshine #lake #lakelife #swimming #joy #angel #selfie #burnsthefire

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Henry & Maggie at the coffeeshop. Burnsthefire.com #summer #livingiseasy #bulldoglife #bulldogs #bulldog #puppylove #puppy #puppydog #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagram #burnsthefire

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I was born in the water. Burnsthefire.com #lake #inthelake #atthelake #cottage #cottagelife #mountainlake #swimming #happiness #joy #selfie #reflectiongram #burnsthefire