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What I Don't Tell Her
She calls her night my morning, finals, senior thesis, friend-stuff. How are you maman? The French she uses when feeling soft, when...
Tara Zafft
21 hours ago2 min read
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Absence
Absence  Maybe, though, it’s not always the stars that matter but the space between them, the lines we draw to shape the absence....
Tara Zafft
Apr 71 min read
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Magnificent Passives
Focus on movement, not              balance, says the teacher as I stand on one foot trying not        to                 try?...
Tara Zafft
Mar 311 min read
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Monday Poetry Musing -- yom tov
Every morning we have tea, my husband and me, this morning no different. I boil water— Darjeeling for him, decaf chai for me. I fold...
Tara Zafft
Mar 241 min read
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The Art of Seeing
It's been a big week. An overwhelming week. A week when it has been a challenge to find words to name the plethora of emotions and...
Tara Zafft
Jan 211 min read
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Beauty
It's been a while... I'm thinking about beauty. I'm thinking about art. Keats and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Bishop and "One Art". About...
Tara Zafft
Jan 142 min read
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Every Body
This is the story told in hushed tones. It is the version of the tale they do not want you to know. After all, what is more powerful than...
Tara Zafft
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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A Lesson from the Trees
I have a scar running diagonally across my nose. The reminder of a car accident that killed the other driver and nearly ten-year-old me...
Tara Zafft
Aug 26, 20242 min read
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Riding the waves
I had a talk with one of my daughters recently about the ups and downs of being in one’s twenties—the insecurities, the angst, the...
Tara Zafft
Aug 19, 20242 min read
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Art--relevant or not?
In his latest book, Blue Ruin, author Hari Kunzru explores the role of art and the artist in society. Jay, the central character, rejects...
Tara Zafft
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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Fear
I have spent a lifetime trying not to feel fear. I never wanted the difficulties of my childhood to be an excuse for failure. I did not...
Tara Zafft
Aug 5, 20241 min read
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What Birds Teach
The first sounds I heard this morning were birds chirping. High-pitched happy sounds. And I smiled in reaction and was filled with joy....
Tara Zafft
Jul 29, 20242 min read
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Silence
I was a bit late to the game. Yesterday a friend asked me if I’d heard about the controversy with Alice Munro. I hadn’t. What she told me...
Tara Zafft
Jul 22, 20242 min read
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An Unlikely Women's Circle
A few days ago, I am feeling that late-afternoon slump. I am dragging and still have a lot to do so I make myself some coffee and...
Tara Zafft
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Ancient Beckoning
Something ancient beckons us, a haunting that we usually ignore for our fear of the unknown. Sometimes it whispers, you too can bend life...
Tara Zafft
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Vigilance
The other day I am having coffee with a friend. We are sitting outside in the shade. There is a breeze, and we feel not overwhelmed with...
Tara Zafft
Jul 1, 20242 min read
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Hope and Venom
Hope – התקווה To hope לקוות My Hebrew vocabulary words this week. And then my teacher asked me to make sentences, which were something...
Tara Zafft
Jun 24, 20242 min read
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