Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Just thinking…
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Monday was a good day. Despite being out of coffee (remembering as soon as I stepped into the kitchen that it was the main reason I planned to go to the grocery store after shopping with TG the night before) the lightning, thunder and expletives a morning without fresh hot coffee would normally trigger stayed…
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I passed her several times in the grocery store, the young mother, as we both weaved our way up and down the aisles. She was dressed nice – she must have gotten off work, grabbed the kids from daycare and had to hit the store before heading home. She was tired – I could tell…
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Gray skies. Gray thoughts. Thinking of disappointment on my walk this morning, for some reason… how people who are close to us may disappoint us – our friends, our family – but how easily and often we also disappoint them, with our words, actions, or non-actions. The government disappoints us, like our episode with the…
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Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. ~Dale Carnegie Despite an afternoon on the lake with friends yesterday, warmed by the sun, cooled by the water…
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I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. DIANE ACKERMANAmerican writer and naturalist, present day Remember that Garth Brooks song, "The River"? It popped into my head this morning and is…
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Twenty-eight years ago today, Tom and I dismissed superstition by getting married on a Friday the 13th. We were so sure of our decision, so confident of our love and our future together, that we challenged those centuries-old superstitions to a duel. Well, of course they just turned tail and ran, because they could see…
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I could write two versions of my day yesterday. Here's the first: I had to skip my workout yesterday to rush into town early, battling the last snarls of rush hour traffic to snatch Daniel from his apartment in time for his and the Girl's eye doctor appointments back on this side of town. It…
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I followed a trail of silver moonlight from my bedroom to the French doors this morning. The full moon waited for me just outside. Good morning! it said. Yes, it is, I told it. I love seeing its beaming face watching over the Hollow, keeping an eye on things. I love how its light…
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My favorite frozen moments of this past week are these from a twilight walk down our road with Tom and the puppies last weekend. They aren't perfect photographs, but I chose them because they help me remember why we fell in love with Long Hollow. They remind me why all of the back-breaking work,…
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Summers are riding bikes to Berkshire pharmacy for ice cream cones, picking dewberries in the horse pasture, the first stars silently watching a twilight game of hide-n-seek. Summers are hours spent at Astroworld, standing in lines, screaming on rides, flirting… days spent at Camp Warnecke, tubing the Comal, playing pinball. Flirting. Summers are flying down…
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