Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: My Evolution
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"My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue…an everlasting vision of the everchanging view. A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold. A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold…" Carole King's words touched something inside me the first time I heard them thirty-eight years ago, triggering a longing for richness, depth…
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I've come across something amazing but to share it I have to admit to extreme stupidity. It is so amazing…too amazing to keep to myself…so I'll just have do it. Please have mercy and don't laugh at me too much… It all started when I spotted Tom relaxing on the back deck one evening with a beer,…
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…I would rise with the sun every morning and walk along the beach…I would spend every spare minute during the day searching for unique seashells, capturing images of the birds, the dunes, the grasses, the waves on my camera, feeling the sun kiss my shoulders, and cooling off in the surf…I would find a quiet…
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"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold.A circle is round, it has no end.That's how long I will be your friend." -from the Brownie Friendship Song In 1977, we had no cell phones…no email…no Facebook. After high school graduation, I stayed in touch with a handful of people via corded…
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Like any job, mine can get tedious – coming up with fresh new names can strain anyone's creativity and then staring at a computer screen for hours and hours, screening the potential new names for trademark hits, puts a definite strain on your eyes and your "sitting" muscles. But learning something new is always exciting to me,…
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It was love at first sight -Tom knew the minute he saw these 5+ acres that it was the property for us. I agreed and we bought it without looking at anything else. It was the pond and creek that did it – our original dream of a lake view just floated downstream like…
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Confetti is flying out of my calendar and littering my kitchen counter from all of the recent birthdays! Besides my mother-in-law's, last week my friend Gina partied her way into 50 (well, every day is a celebration with Gina, anyway. She IS a party!) Another friend, Scott, turned 54, and yet another, Larry, turns 60 this weekend. (I remember…
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For the past six years these friends from high school have hit the road on Harleys (well, one Yamaha), just getting away from their regular lives, reconnecting and strengthening their friendship. I think it's great that they care enough about each other to make time for their friendship like this. This year they planned…
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"Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are." - Robert Pinsky When Kendall's soccer game was canceled last Saturday morning, Tom and I grabbed that chance to take a walk through my old neighborhood where my parents still live. We headed for a path that meanders through the heart of Deepwater, a twenty-or-so-acre island of mowed…
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Well, it wasn't the ending we hoped for, but finishing up second in the State soccer tournament (for the third time) is pretty dang good. I like blue, but red is still one of my favorite colors. Saturday everything fell into place – the rainclouds that had delayed earlier games moved out of the way,…
Long Hollow 