Far away city
Far away city with dreams that went to sleep
About Lucinda
Lucinda Watson has worked as a teacher, a healer, a volunteer, a naturalist guide, a storyteller and a board member of a few nonprofits, sometimes all at once. Watson worked for more than 10 years at the Haas School of Business, teaching communication skills to the MBA population and recruiting business leaders to speak at Haas.
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Explore some poems, snippets, and essays of my life.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Once, long ago, I wrote a poem on Thanksgiving about a couple who were standing on a stone wall outside their house. They were wearing matching Fair Isle sweaters with wreaths around their necks and were in their fifties. A bird swooped down and took the husband’s sweater in his mouth and flew away with him. The wife was too embarrassed to explain what had happened so she spent the rest of her life ignoring the fact that he was gone. Why am I telling you this story? I have no idea. I think I am telling the…
From Book Riot’s list of…
Buy my book! The Favorite by Lucinda Watson This memoir in verse is brimming with insight and wisdom from Watson’s 71 years of being alive. It’s divided into three parts, which explore the author’s thoughts during different periods of her life. It explores a child’s innocence and curiosity in the first part. It goes on to explore themes of privilege, objectification, and being a woman in a patriarchal world. We grow with the writer as the book progress. The last part has her examining and understanding her life. The self-acceptance feels cathartic. Remembering Isadora Duncan “I asked for a womb witha…
Japanese Garden
Japanese Garden Under Construction Stones rumbled, poured out then stopped precisely. A river threaded as a stream of water through a needle’s eye. Tree cut out of scrub: arms akimbo, silence of wind seen in movement of water, footsteps crunching faint and soft, Bird dares to dip a wing in water. Lucinda Watson
Suicide
Eight years ago I lost a child to suicide. It changed my life forever but this information has to be kept to myself the majority of the time. Before I lost Tina, I never thought about what to say to people when they suffered a great loss. Like most people I would say I am so sorry when I would see friends that had lost loved ones in their lives. But just like Andy Warhol used to say that people have five minutes of fame in their lives, the truth of the matter is most people have about five minutes…
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