Tag Archives: life

~:: A Sad Little Story ::~

Some of you aren’t going to understand this. The last year has been just kinda hard. I shake my head at myself for writing that, knowing the kinds of things many of you have been dealing with. Mine has just … Continue reading

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~:: Another Sampler:Summer ::~

I am still not myself. I don’t care about capturing light. I don’t care about writing. I don’t care about making things. The fact that I don’t care about cleaning the house is the only reassuringly normal thing about these … 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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~:: vita interruptus ::~

I figured out how to explain it.  You know, that thing that happens when you get home from vacation and walk back into your house, and suddenly, don’t remember who you used to be when you lived there?  Or a … Continue reading

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By the Seat of My Pants

A long but, you know, fascinating and timely argument: On the way out to Santa Fe, I went through the usual security checks – I took off my coat and shoes and put them in a tray.  I removed my … Continue reading

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:: The Explanation ::

My oldest daughter’s father-in-law is a crazy man.  When he was young, he stepped out of his life, joined the LDS church (alone of all his family), jumped on a motorcycle and took himself to Utah.  There, he went to … Continue reading

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~o:> at least the carpets were clean

This morning (this would be Thursday, September 9): I did the treadmill, then trotted down the long pasture driveway in a little rain.  Let the horses out, fertilized about three quarters of a acre, moved two days’ and five horses’ … Continue reading

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Oh, give me a home –

Okay, home from church and dinner, consisting of a GF grilled chicken breast and left-over basically broccoli soup (where did that word come from, broccoli?  Does it sound French to you?  Latin?  Old high German?  And that spelling? Somebody made … Continue reading

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