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Category Archives: Just life
The 4th: part tres
When I was a kid, I fell in love with Polyanna. The movie, I mean, not the character. I loved the prisms. And I loved most of all the 4th of July bazaar—the games and the flags and the corn on … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Family, friends, Fun Stuff, Images, Just life, Seasons, The kids, The outside world
Tagged crowns, family, food, fourth of July, foxes, friends, natives, pic nic
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The 4th: part dos
Parade day is always good exercise. If you don’t get up at five to stake your claim (which we don’t), you do a whole lot of walking (which we do). Sometimes through parts of town you’ve never seen before. I … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Images, Just life, Making Things, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged Chaz, farmer's market, jewelry
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The 4th: part uno
A little (HA) photo essay about the things I loved this 4th— Part One The Hometown Parade: we make it a science Every year as the kids grew up, we made our way to Ginger’s house, a lovely pioneer … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Horses, Images, Just life, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged 4th of July, balloons, family, holiday, Horses, Scooter
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More scrap 2(?)
I hate it when I got a lot to write about and no time or opportunity to do the mind-data dump. It makes me jumpy, keeping all these things in the air. So I think I’m going to do bullets, … Continue reading
Facing the elephant
There’s all this stuff I want to write about. Even if nobody ever read this, I’d want to remember it, talk about it. But life is like this moving sidewalk on steroids, and things whip past before you have a … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific
Tagged colt, happy, Horses, riding, trot, Zion
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More Scrap
More little scraps. To begin with: the company I keep. This is me, kind of dorky, always communicating (cry for those who live with me), a little dumpy, but well meaning and not terribly exciting. This is my … Continue reading
Scrap Quilting
Not really. Scrap life-ing. Bits and pieces out of my image library. Not showing off my technique, just cool little moments. Grandson Young moms doing lunch in the park. They let me stay. Old dog. Losing his hearing. But never … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Horses, Images, Images of our herd in specific, Just life, Seasons
Tagged dogs, family, grandkids, Horses, season, stuff
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Conclavity of the Arts
When I was invited to function as the Mormon Arts Foundation’s Chair of Literature some years ago, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it. Yeah, we make our living in the music biz, but that’s all just working class … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, friends, Fun Stuff, Just life, Making Things, The outside world
Tagged MAF, Making Things
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Just a dumb day
I couldn’t sleep last night. Who knows why? Just, sometimes, you can’t find the soft place – the place where you sink down and it swallows you. I keep landing on ledges – maybe because I have a yucky full … Continue reading
Every little triumph counts
People always like to think that I am brave and fierce, a thing which is just completely untrue. I’m verbal, which is a kind of armor, I suppose. But I am not brave, and rarely … Continue reading