From Judith:
I am a retired dual-national, now living in Oklahoma City. My occupation and pre-occupation are with my artist daughter and rescued Brussels Griffon dog, plus writing, volunteering for the blind, Tai Chi-ing, traveling, and visiting with friends. Life is good.
Most of my adult life was spent outside the United States, as a teacher and as a British diplomatic wife. Recent travel restrictions and retirement have allowed me to revisit the journals and photographs from those years. Between the yellowed lines of writings and behind the fading pictures, I find experiences and emotions to be recalled and savored.
Inspired by my poetry critique groups and online peepholes into life around me, I continue to write poetry. I write to preserve memories; I write to explore thoughts and feelings; I write because that is how I process life.
Performing my poems gives me pleasure because I feel the music of our language swells when a poem is read aloud.
As the former American Laureate Robert Pinskey said, If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet’s voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently…is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.
I hope you like humming my songs.
Judith
Email address: jsrycroft@yahoo.com
