This series was meant to complete a challenge to produce a creative work every day for one month. At first, my motivation was to show an appreciation for what I knew of my heritage and family history, and when I started, the project had no name. It wasn’t until day 13, drawing the picture of the homestead, the imagined home ofContinue reading “A Reflection on ‘A Recovering Spell’”
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A Recovering Spell: The Brothers
Three ready to harvest from new fields to work Three ready to recover
A Recovering Spell: The Arroz con Habichuelas
A Staple for bringing the island within reach
A Recovering Spell: The Hands
The means to grasp, carry, prop, pull and lift
A Recovering Spell: The Factory
The impulse to work tethered and mechanized
A Recovering Spell: The Garden
The impulse to plant A legacy to fulfill
A Recovering Spell: The Townhouse
A Home connected and a family refuses to be rejected
A Recovering Spell: The Sea
The quiet space between longing and aspiration
A Recovering Spell: The Center
The presence of God contained The hand of God accessible
A Recovering Spell: The Homestead
A place in soil nested where a family rests when work is completed
My Box of Unfinished Projects 