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Apology
The snow. When I finally dragged my sorry bones to the barn this morning, I made a conscious choice not to take the camera. You can’t take a camera everywhere, darn it. And it was twenty degrees, and there’s all … Continue reading
Choirs of Angels
It has been hard for me this year. Hard to feel the loving spirit. You know how sometimes you are surprised by joy? I’ve been more like wrapped in acoustical tile, somehow. At church, I … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Just life, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons
Tagged Christmas, music
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Good fellows
December 22, 2008 I LOVE my neighborhood. Love it, love it, love it!!! I got myself stuck in a snowbank tonight. It’s been snowing all day. Even so, we each have sallied out to pick up a final … Continue reading
The Ancient Shindig
I have told this story before. And I’m sure, by the time I have run out of words, I will have told the same stories so many times, my children will be able to build a simulacrum out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Family, Just life, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons
Tagged Christmas, friends, ornaments, party
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Atten: Office of Humbug
Forget cognitive dissonance. How about cognitive lock-up. Like they say on the space shows, “I’m trying sir, but the computer’s all locked up.” Or frozen? Do they say frozen? Or jammed. Any of those. That’s where I am: cognitive freeze. What’s wrong with people in administrative offices? If … Continue reading
Fairy Lights
Not a lot of words, here. On Saturday and Monday I put up the little outside lights. G does the big ones up on the scary roof, and I make him do that early in the month before the roof … Continue reading
A Little Thanks
Some years ago, I opened my soul to a person I had thought of as a very good friend: “At the very first sense of chill in the evening air, the very first whisper of Autumn, do you find yourself … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Just life, Seasons, Visits
Tagged Dad, rutabaga, Thanksgiving
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The East, part 9: The Little Family
Family Life The Japanese Maple I showed you a couple of days ago is almost winter stripped. Just inside the school yard. The milk box. I’m so fond of it. The teacher. Unlike Frazz’ last teacher – the Russian … Continue reading
The East, part 6: A Walk in the Woods
A quiet family day. First, we hit the dog park. It’s a property owned by the university, but generally used as a lace to let your dog run around with other dogs. See how the people relate to one another? … Continue reading
The East, pt 5: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
A blustering and unkind day. The wind is driving the clouds in toward the land, but the leaves are scudding seawards. It is as dark as early evening in the middle of the day. And the rain cannot make its … Continue reading