Connie Spittler, USA

Essayist and poet, Connie wrote & produced the Wise Women videos, selected for Harvard University’s Library on the History of Women in America.

  • Traditions

    Connie Spittler, USA

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    Pulled by the sun, my husband Bob and I threw away our mittens, woolly hats and snow shovels as we moved from the Midwest to Arizona. No more flakes of lace falling on a silent, sleeping yard or night air crisp enough to freeze the tips off stars. Some holiday images we forfeited, but one tradition we kept. The Spittler Christmas Eve supper.

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  • Ants

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    Inside our back patio wall, my husband and I ponder black-collared lizards that practice push-ups in the sun as we stroll the yard. Pulling a straggly weed, an invisible cholla spine pricks my palm. This is the Sonora Desert, after all.

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  • Pink Moments

    Connie Spittler, USA

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    The Southwestern artist Georgia O’Keeffe said, “It’s my mountain. God told me if I painted it often enough, I could have it.”

    Now in Tucson, Arizona, I gaze at the Catalina Mountains. Today, dark peaks nine thousand feet high rise up and over the cloud strings that wind through the crannies, leading to our personal Shangri La.

    In 1540, the Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado and his expedition trekked through Arizona from Mexico in search of Seven Golden Cities of Gold. They didn’t find the cities, but instead, discovered the Catalina Range.

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  • Lint

    Connie Spittler, USA

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    Years ago, I met a man who noticed lint. After Reinhold Marxhausen watched his wife clean the clothes dryer screen, he began to collect this peculiar stuff, not seeing throwaway material, but texture, color and invention. A Professor of Art at Concordia College in Nebraska, he layered the multi-colored fibers under glass, forming abstractions that echoed landscape. I bought one, as a reminder to look more closely at my immediate world.

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