Two woman, Anita Holzberg and Ann Wainwright met over the internet with Bill Costley,
their common friend, whose wife Carolin had been Ann's good friend. Starting in
June '09, Anita sent a Cupcake poem to Ann's website cakecakecake, after seeing
the photo of cupcakes. The poem was about her grandson's first birthday party. Ann
liked that and it was the start of a wonderful exchange of poems from Anita to Ann and
Ann with color, photos, and lay-out savvy, presented them to the blog. Now, in 2010,
the two women so alike in spirit and interests, have started BetweenFriends, a new blog
site where they can combine ideas about their worlds. Ann lives in Northern UK
(Teesside). Anita lives in Northern California, Sunnyvale, (Silicon Valley where all the
computers are.) We share our lives on this blog and hope you will comment and share
yours too, dear readers and enjoy the "ride".

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

I Celebrate - Anita Holzberg 

Not withstanding hope
  I write these lines
      that come after a long sleep
         that come after a long rest
              that come out of the essence
                 we call thinking about life

Not withstanding
       I wash a dish
           eat some pasta
              make the coffee twice

In these moments I am 
  In these moments I am

Not withstanding circumstances
  I roll up the towel
    I take out the trash
        I put a fresh lipstick on

For life is more than that
  swimming into a new day

I celebrate who I am
  who I was
      who I became
in these moments that I write these lines

I celebrate that also.

Anita Schiffman Holzberg

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