Rosie’s Door Finally Opens: Blue Plastic Flashes Back — Rosie + Sister Freed After 50 Years
This was her house. "Lisa, you need to find a house like this," she said. She circled Dragonfly Books. I wondered why — until this fall, 14 years after her death, a dragonfly landed as I opened Lionel: King of the Pool Pond and 61 Dragons (dragonfly nymphs). It clicked.
The door I locked after 1976 held Rosie Doberman captive — that supernatural ghost dog who saved me that day. She stayed pawing to get out all 50 years. My sister pawed too, her Cherokee ashes binding our lineage in these woods. I didn’t know.
It took my husband’s cancer returning, threats ripping this land — Oak Savanna Winds: Blue Lupine, our pets, documentaries — to collapse everything again. Back to that shortcut. Fighting to survive, once more.
Winter bares the woods. Blue plastic on my old school flashes back like Pabst bottle caps from 1976. The path we walked stares through the trees.
Listen to "Rosie Doberman: Fields of Ghosts"
https://lisalcmusic.com/single/179214/rosie-doberman-fields-of-ghosts
Song and lyrics by Lisa Loucks-Christenson
Produced (c) 2026 Lisa Loucks-Christenson · LisaLCMusic.com
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Lisa Loucks-Christenson
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