Tag Archives: Horses

~:: A Story ::~

The problem with me and blogging these last couple of years is simple and systemic: you have to be able to sit still long enough to write something down. Sitting still works while you are in thinking mode.  Doesn’t work … Continue reading

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~:: Ergodicity ::~

What a swell word. Has to do with statistics, mostly – as in the consideration of erstwhile moments as indications of probability in a system. Or something. I am choosing to mean it thus: any given moment in the past … Continue reading

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~:: Inversion pt 3 – and the punchline ::~

Okay, so I’m making my way through all this by making a story out of it. What a surprise. Several weeks ago, on our way to church one very foggy morning, we came out the front door and found these … Continue reading

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~:: Nor’ Wester ::~

In the mess of feeling I’ve had over the last many weeks, there was this shining bit of smug satisfaction: I was, in some small things, ready. For one thing, I’d made a boat-load of deer ornaments, plus the junk … Continue reading

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~:: Triathlon ::~

Triathlons don’t usually start with roaring scary thunder storms. But ours did this morning.  G’s, I mean—it wasn’t mine. I don’t do triathlons. And neither did he, actually, this morning.  Here’s how it went: up at five thirty, he was … Continue reading

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~:: Turn, turn, turn ::~

I found out today that my early-autumn-angst was slightly overblown. The mountains are changing – but we rode through them today and found that the mountains’ sides were still chock full of green.  And somehow, that made it easier for … Continue reading

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~::May 2012 – Revisiting Summer::~

Rewind: so many stories I wanted to record. I only remember them now because I took the pictures – which is the point, then, for taking them in the first place.  So I take us back to the very beginning … Continue reading

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~:: Brave ::~

I haven’t written anything on a blog or in a journal for weeks.  I’ve been self-publishing like a crazy person, and now I have all the book promotion to figure out.  I HATE being behind like this, and being out … Continue reading

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~:: More Harrowing Stuff ::~

25th – cold and rainy. Not rainy yet, but it will be. We are still alive, which is good news. (And this: Constant tense-shift alert. I am too un-moured to decide past or present) The most effective antidote for art … Continue reading

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~:: A Little Lapine Fun ::~

There are daring souls among the crafters who send a character they have made literally out into the wide world – traveling to places the maker, herself, may never see. Someone did it with a meerkat once, a yarn one. … Continue reading

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