Category Archives: Epiphanies and Meditations

A Message and St. Patrick

Posted on March 17, 2011 by K

We, along with all of you I’m certain, have been watching the unfolding story of Japan with horror and sorrow.  Even short of compassion, there is a Hopkins Spring and Fall realization that has to come to us with the … Continue reading →

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~:: Signs of Spring ::~

Posted on March 14, 2011 by K

Woo-hoo, hoypoloy and sis-boombaa – how I love words.  Love them, love them, love them.  I love the delicate scents and shapes and colors of them.  The feel of them in my hand.  I’d throw myself into a pit of … Continue reading →

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But how have you felt?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by K

I’m thinking about doing a couple more horses, but I find myself stalling out. Stymied. Almost flowered out. I want to make them all white, or natural, really, because this is my 100% wool. On the other hand, I have … Continue reading →

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The Worth of a Soul

Posted on March 6, 2011 by K

I get so frustrated with our lesson manuals. I really have only thirty minutes in which to communicate something important to my kids, but the lessons outline what would take me hours to go through in a meaningful way. So … Continue reading →

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::: From the neighboring ridge . . . :::

Posted on March 3, 2011 by K

Comes an answering howl: an answer, indeed, to my own little self. I believe that every blogger (can that really be a noun?) eventually comes to the place where she/he wonders why the heck she/he feels so compelled to share … Continue reading →

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::: Howling :::

Posted on March 2, 2011 by K

Tonight, G picked up his plate and stalked into the kitchen.  “I am sick of the government,” he said. (He did NOT slam the plate down on the counter. Not my new plates, he wouldn’t.)  We’d been listening to the … Continue reading →

Posted in IMENHO (Evidently not humble), Just life, Just talk, mad, whining | Tagged , , , , , | 22 Comments

~:: Valentines! ::~

Posted on February 14, 2011 by K

First of all: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! In my life, this has been more a day of making things for people and leaving secrets here and there than getting stuff.  Which is not the case today – *blush*.  So I have … Continue reading →

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kinetic history

Posted on February 11, 2011 by K

What I just heard about Egypt, a reporter on the street level repeating what he had heard in the celebration:  the people simply want their basic freedoms.  He quoted a person saying, “We want our own  America.”  (I wish I’d … Continue reading →

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Grouse

Posted on January 25, 2011 by K

Not as in “game bird.”  As in: I am in a particularly bad mood.  I bought the new iPhoto (that would be 11) because it had this swell flickr uploader.  But they’ve changed the inter-play between the iPhoto display and … Continue reading →

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~:: discovery ::~

Posted on January 19, 2011 by K

Sorry.  I know I just poked you on the shoulder.  But I am sitting here, processing pages for my family photo books, (don’t you wish you could put links to former discussions into conversations with your man or mom or … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Images, Just life, The kids | Tagged , , | 28 Comments