Carolyn Wing Greenlee

Category: All Posts

Total 112 Posts

Pictures

••• Pictures ••• Pictures My dad always took pictures of people. Even in Yosemite, his frames were filled with faces. I was not that myopic. I shot flowers trees autumn leaves snow dusted peaks glistening lakes and clouds Now, sorting through photos looking for the “recent color picture” they match

Continue Reading

Connection

After nearly two years of trying to bond with my guide dog Hedy, she suddenly changed shortly before my husband’s death. Here is the poem I wrote about that experience. ••• Connection ••• Nearly two years I’ve waited looking in your small brown canine eyes— do you see me as

Continue Reading

On Taking Pictures

One of the first gifts my father gave me was a twin lens Yashica camera. It took black and white pictures because, when I was a child back in the Fifties, all they had was black and white film. He, himself, was rarely without a camera, and he assiduously documented

Continue Reading

Christmas Letter 2010

12-14-2010 Dear One, If I had written this on October 1 as I had intended, it would have been about finishing Steady Hedy, my book on blindness and the 28 days of guide dog school earning with tears and triumph my little black Lab Hedy and the fun book signings

Continue Reading