Paths I have walked, literally, as I have explored the countryside around me from the time I could walk, and figuratively, as I walk through life.
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About
I was first inspired by the beauty of the local landscapes of Carnegie and the trails and byways along the Chartiers Creek and throughout the Chartiers Valley, paths I’ve been walking since I began to walk. Those paths led me away to learn new things, and led me back, to interpret what I’ve found.
My biggest inspiration for poetry, prose and artwork is still the world right around me, and I enjoy the opportunity to share it from the perspective of one who walks and hikes and bikes and carries a camera, art materials and journal everywhere—even around the house—so the inspirations are fresh.
The familiarity of weather and structure and cultural habit are a starting point, a base to build upon as I walk other paths while building my stories.
Latest Journeys
Essay: Ten Feet High With Jewelweed
That was my garden last year. In fact, it was most of my back and side yards, the places I’d grown my vegetables from my cold frame to my raspberry bushes, where my native plants had stood and called to the bees and butterflies and hummingbirds and songbirds, all in their season. I’d walked among …
Poem for Saturday: Inventing the Wheel
They tried to re-create the sun in all its round perfection, a flat perfect disc, in stone. They set their creation on its edge to work the surface smooth and the edge clean like the life-giving orb they worshipped, but it began to move on its own smoothly along its own track. They followed. It …
Poem: Dawning
Gems and stardust disappearing with the sunrise quickly embrace the magic even as daylight tells you it doesn’t exist. poem “Dawning” ©2018 Bernadette E. Kazmarski There’s something special about the garden in the morning. The metamorphosis of earth from night to day brings tiny metamorphoses and miracles to all that lives and grows. I’ve been …
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