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Ice-gripping Cold…

29 Friday Jan 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections

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cold, Ice, ice-grippers, James Currie, Mary Oliver, Port Credit






My father spent his last winter
Making ice-grips for shoes

Out of strips of inner tube and scrap metal.
(A device which slips over the instep

And holds under the shoe
A section of roughened metal, it allows you to walk

Without fear of falling
Anywhere on the ice or snow.) My father

should not have been doing
All that close work

In the drafty workshop, but as though
he sensed travel at the edge of his mind,

He would not be stopped…
from “Ice” by Mary Oliver

Our ice calipers were fashioned in rubber with metal studs and they, too, allowed my father and I to travel when the exterior world was covered in ice – like a thick plexiglass covering that offered a view to what was beneath, but no warmth.

Photograph © James Currie

Tender mercies…

08 Friday Feb 2013

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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James Currie, Macrina Wiederkehr, Palliative care, Photography, Relationships, Waiting

© James Currie

Lake Ontario © James Currie

And then,
the sacrament of waiting began.
The sunrise and sunset watched with tenderness.
Clothing her with silhouettes
they kept her hope alive.
from The Sacrament of Waiting – by Macrina Wiederkehr

Sometimes the waiting period is better than the one that follows…

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