black yet as Hagar's daughter, tall as was Sheba's daughter

[sovay]

Maya Angelou has died. I keep using the metaphor of landscape to describe people you always think will be there, but that's what it feels like. Trees come down in storms, but you expect hills and riverbeds to stay.

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

We are all trees; it is only after we have fallen and accumulated time and collected together that we become hills and riverbeds.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This is lovely.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I saw her read, once, when I was at college. I can't find adequate words to describe what a fantastic speaker she was. May she rest in peace.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

O no. She will endure: but what a loss!

Nine