Category Archives: Epiphanies and Meditations

Portents and perplexity

Posted on October 11, 2009 by K

            I love light.  Well, yeah, of course I love light.  But I mean in my yard.  I love the light in my yard.  Especially when there are storm clouds over the mountains, hanging over the … Continue reading →

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Slumber

Posted on October 5, 2009 by K

Is anybody else scared to go to bed at night? I don’t ever remember when I was a kid, feeling this way.  For a little while in college, yes, one summer when I was worried about bad guys crawling through … Continue reading →

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Con-fer-ence!!!!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by K

This is silly – this post (I thought I’d published last night somehow didn’t take) is really not that big a deal, so reposting to you  – it’s like when you make some little comment half under your breath, just … Continue reading →

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Interlude

Posted on September 30, 2009 by K

  For like the last week, our local weather guys have been rubbing their hands together with glee, predicting a HUGE change in the weather for this week.  For today, specifically.  “Wait till you find out what’s coming,” was the teaser … Continue reading →

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Caveat: part 4

Posted on August 31, 2009 by K

Caveat six: read the small print             When we bought my iPhone, they talked us into buying Apple Care for it, and both Chaz and I walked away with the understanding that this was insurance even against loss and accident.  … Continue reading →

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Flipping Sweet Sorrow

Posted on August 5, 2009 by K

          We living creatures are constantly swimming in a confluence of diverse and dynamic systems.  I know that.  And I know that a peaceful day is something of a miracle.  And any series of peaceful days is … Continue reading →

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July: not just fireworks

Posted on August 3, 2009 by K

It’s not easy to write about life at the same time you are living it.  What did Wordsworth say?  Poetry is strong emotion as recollected in tranquility?  Yeah.  Tranquility.  A poet who was obviously not a mother.   Because I … Continue reading →

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Opining about opinion

Posted on July 17, 2009 by K

Karl Marx once opined that religion was the opiate of the masses.  Chaz proposes another view: that politics is the true opiate, giving the masses such a nice big bone to worry, they’re too busy with it to look up … Continue reading →

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~:: having a hay day ::~

Posted on July 15, 2009 by K

Now, ya’ll may not find this interesting.  But as a dyed-in-the-wool ignorant suburb-baby, I find it absolutely and utterly fascinating.  Stick with me and I’ll have you well educated in the art of angsting over the coming winter and knowing … Continue reading →

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The Sunday Observer

Posted on July 12, 2009 by K

I like that title up there.  I think it fits, and I think it’s a good warning.  Because every time I try to prepare one of these dang lessons on a day when I’m not allowed to go haring around … Continue reading →

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