The Writings of Chris Orozco
Fiction, Non-fiction, Thoughts, Meditations, and Musings on Life and Death, Family and Friends, Current Issues and History, Nature and Gardens, Spirituality and Faith, and Everything In-Between & Beyond.
Featured Posts
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Latest Posts
Postcard Story – La Grenouillère – Claude Monet – 1869 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Claude Monet | La Grenouillère | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) La Grenouillère – Claude Monet Oldest Daughter – 07/21/21 …and now in college at NYU when her grandfather called, or...
The Blessings of Pink – In Pink, She Had Wandered for a Time & Inside the Pink Purse of a Five-Year-Old & When She Sang, She Brought Tears to My Eyes
In Pink She Had Wandered for a Time My oldest granddaughter, the firstborn of my firstborn, for a time wandered, finding new foundations, setting and re-setting her bearings, navigating the course...
The Flag of Ukraine I Passed on One of My Walks & Conversations, Emails, & Expletives – Прапор України, який я передав під час однієї зі своїх прогулянок, розмов, електронних листів та лайливих слів
The Flag of Ukraine I Passed on One of My Walks & Conversations, Emails, & Expletives Прапор України, який я передав під час однієї зі своїх прогулянок, розмов, електронних листів та...
Postcard Story – Olive Trees – Vincent van Gogh – 1889 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art – 1899
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437998 *** Olive Trees Oldest NYC Grandson – 02/01/23 …and he was just about to say that he has always had an affinity with olive trees, but that was...
Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat – When She was Sitting Up in the Hospital Bed, with One Hand Resting Upon Her Cheek, She Would Just Stare in Peaceful Contemplation at the Orange Cat, that Sat in Quiet Repose Upon the Wooden Windowsill, Four Feet from My Mom’s Wondering Eyes
Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat A fluffy orange stuffed cat, a source of comfort, though not the toy or comfort of a child, sits on the back of the sofa in my study, the only stuffed...
A Tale of Two Houses on the Road, Originally Dirt, That I Grew Up On
The street in the photo looking up towards the mountains is the present day view of the street that I grew up on. In my early years, until about when I was seven or eight, it was a dirt road. The...
Postcard Story – The Fortune Teller – Georges de La Tour – 1630s – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson– 12/01/20 …and he never understood all the words of advice, all the talk at the supper table, parents, older...
Last Visit to Richard & The Story I Was Not Able to Read to Him
Last Visit to Richard & The Story I Was Not Able to Read to Him *** For our 55th Year high school reunion, coming up within a week now, the Reunion Committee solicited written submissions from...
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna”
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna” This posting is not so much a formal...
Postcard Stories – Young Mother Sewing – Mary Cassatt – 1900 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10425 Second Granddaughter – 04/21/14 …and the young girl loved her mother who she thought was very pretty and sometimes she just wanted to be with...