Sylvia Peck

So sorry to her close friends and family.  I remember her from 7th grade, even though I think she may have go e to Byron.

Oh! I got mixed up between Liz's here! Mea Culpa! Happy Belated Birthday Beth Young! Many Happy Returns of the Day. ( Sylvia Peck)

I missed your birthday! I hope you had a wonderful birthday, and celebrated all week long. We are now into the second week of December. I will be having a friend over tomorrow for matzah ball soup. If I were brave I would make Tarte Tatin for dessert. And maybe some brussel sprouts or potates Dauphenoise with Gruyere cream sauce. But I always feel guilty that I don't keep Kosher.

Any new poems?

I have big news, but I think I told you in a text. xxo Big hug!

Syl

Happy early birthday for August 18th. That’s a travel day for me to Cambridge, so I might miss wishing you well. My first pink Tose if Sharon bloomed today. A week early, but in your honor.

i love that he became a horticulturalist.  He had a beautiful aesthetic sensibility, and would have been wonderful designing plantings as a landscape designer.

My condolences to his wife, Patty, and to the rest of his family and friends.  I am not 100 % positive, so please forgive me if I am wrong, but I think Mike taught me how to use the darkroom to develop tri-x, even though it was grainy.  He was extremely kind, and patient; sympathetic when I left a print drying too long in the roller, and it burned.  And I think he came up with a way for me to do a double exposure in the development process.  Or , he taught me how to under-expose and then rewind the film to create a double exposure.  I'm glad you had a chance to speak together recently, Bill.  The fishing day sounds wonderfully tender, as a memory.  What a gift --

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Hi Shelley: i will donate. If your proposal doesn’t fly here. I will try to go directly to the go fund me page. How devastating. A terrible grief. I didn’t recognize the child’s Mom. But I remember this beautiful child’s face from the news coverage. Now I see she was a granddaughter of someone you know well. Please convey my condolences — whenever it might help. Even as another Woodbury girl.
My cousin, Sarah, lost her 6 year old in a drowning in 2002. (Not a flood) — Sarah keeps a candle lit, always, in her home, unless she is traveling — In case there is a heaven and her daughter, Isabeau Constance, needs to find her.

Hug,

Syl

Happy Birthday, Chrys!

Posted on: Jun 09, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Dearest and Svelte, Paula Kawson— elegant as ever, and kind, and a barrel of laughs, and the sweetest, most fun Grandma ever. Hmmmm why don’t I see pictures of your grandchildren….Hmmmm. We’ll forgive me if I got that wrong. Come visit me on the Outer Cape! Maybe we can make it happen this summer. Thanks for your patience when I disappeared over the loss of my Dad. I was just feeling as though the bottom dropped out. But I can feel my toes in the sand now. My garden is thrilled with blooming colors. For YOUR BIRTHDAY! Love, Syl

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www.sylviapeck.com

My website shows my published books and current writing projects. Hope you are well.

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Congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter in 2024. How joyous for you both. I am glad your father is still with you.

I lost my father April 7, 2023, so my birthday always has a tinge of loss. But all else is well, particularly with my writing. Take care, always’. Syl

Looking forward to Gladiator II next spring. I’ll be in NYC for a quick Thanksgiving visit, and In May 2025, Will and I will be meeting up in Louisville. I’ll still watch the Derby on the TV screen, and get all the instant replays; but I will see my step-grandchildren and meet my step-granddaughter,Tiffany, who will have turned two years old. All of them Harry and Maya’s children, all five!, now back in the states, and living year-round in Kentucky.

Posted on: Jul 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM

This photo from Woodbury graduation in 1970 is dedicated to my bangs which I will love forever, — I am beginning to grow them out again in July of 2024, at the whim of stylist fashions. I grew them out in1970, and I am growing them out again. May they tuck behind my ears by Halloween.

Posted on: Jul 03, 2024 at 3:33 PM

Happy Birthday, Chrys! Stay cool and frosty. Flagstaff is cooler in this heat than Las Vegas, so I hope you are in Flagstaff.

Maybe I’ll write more on the fourth, tomorrow.

Take care,

Sylvia