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March 26, 2018

Catching the Artist Type When Happy

March 26, 2018/ Rachel Mackow
Catching the Artist Type When Happy

I tend to be serious as h/ll when I write and make photographs. And then I often write about dancing and having fun and wanting to have more fun. So, here are two self-portraits of me happy, doing something I love earlier today.

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Creativity, Love, Music, Self-portraiture
sideoats grama, Bouteloua curtipendula\
March 23, 2018

Cradle, Not The Crib

March 23, 2018/ Rachel Mackow
Cradle, Not The Crib

Don't leave me in the crib. I'll die here. Alone. Cradle me in your arms. Hold me. I'll live. I'll live.

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Family, Motherhood, Relationships, Love, Childhood
crib, babies, childhood
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The Shagbark Speaks

Rachel Mackow is a photographer and writer who resides on a ridge in the New Jersey Highlands with her husband and son.

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I'm a writer and photographer, observer and keeper of memories in this space, The Shagbark Speaks. In the other spaces of my life, which take most of my time, I am a wife, mother, native plant grower & natural lands restoration practitioner, and laundress.

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