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Christina Carson

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Born
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February 26, 1946

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Leaving my budding career in biological research and disowned by my family due to my response to our involvement in the Vietnam War, I immigrated to Canada. I lived there 25 years until a Vietnam Vet asked me to marry him. Now there's a story for you. Canada will always be my home of heart and my first two novels take place there.

At 70 years of age, I'm really not so different than I always was, a loner, a runner, lover of animals and a beautifully turned phrase. I have worn many caps, worked in many different fields but have always had one thread running through my life, the insatiable curiosity to understand human nature sufficient to see another way to live, one more akin to what I see around me in the natural world. I'm inclined to wri
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Christina Carson I go into edit mode and work on material I've already written that is as yet unpublished. That work then improves and I feel competent again and proce…moreI go into edit mode and work on material I've already written that is as yet unpublished. That work then improves and I feel competent again and proceed back to what I was originally stuck on. It works well for me and it keeps me moving forward.(less)
Christina Carson I love good writing - a beautifully turned phrase, an insightful observation, a rich and evocative description. So when I manage to come up with a pie…moreI love good writing - a beautifully turned phrase, an insightful observation, a rich and evocative description. So when I manage to come up with a piece of good writing,, it is so rewarding that I feel most fortunate to be drawn to something that has the potential to so satisfy me - the ability to write.(less)
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Suffer the Little Children

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Dying to Know

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I Wept


I’ve been around awhile, 70 years now. I’ve experienced my share of the rough and tumble of life. So imagine my surprise when I opened a section of last week’s “New York Times,” stared at the picture, read the copy and wept.
The photo was a full page rendering of the skeletal remains of a large building and the now missing, essentially pulverized, 100 people who were attending a funeral there Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 20, 2016 07:58
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“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore”
Christina Carson, Suffer the Little Children

“I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we’re safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way.”
Christina Carson, Dying to Know

“It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.”
Christina Carson, Suffer the Little Children

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Franz Kafka

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“...Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
For your mother and my mother
Were friends....”
Hafiz

“We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”
Michael Talbot, Mysticism and the New Physics

“Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”
Michael Link

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Douglas Wickard Christina thank you for friending me on Goodreads!
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Christina Carson You're more than welcome, Simon


Mireille Chester Hi Christina! How's your summer going? Hope the weather's been decent where you are. The leaves here are starting to turn already and I'm sure they just turned green... We've had no summer whatsoever! :) oh well, I prefer fall over summer anyway. lol


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Simon Thanks for seeking me out, Christina.

Simon


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