Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Procrastination
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Max has finished eating and lies still at my feet. We both stare out into the Hollow. Cicadas hum. Birds chatter back and forth. Heat hasn't yet white-washed the cloudless sky – its crisp blue stretches like a fresh-washed sheet from horizon to horizon. A cardinal whooshes from one tree to another, just a flash…
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Frenzy is my word of the week, (where's my copy of Pearl Jam's song Just Breathe?) so please forgive me if this post seems a little harried and unorganized. If it jumps around a bit, it's just a reflection of my life right now, hopscotching from one project to the next in haphazard order. Tom…
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A splash of orange. Blue, gradually deepening. The corrugated silhouette of surrounding hills. Lights twinkling from houses, from Austin in the distance, and from cars criss-crossing the hill opposite me. The weekend is slipping away with the sun, along with another unfinished to-do list. But the 'done' list includes walks through the woods in spring-like…
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When the sun stepped into the Hollow this morning, it found me gazing at a reflection of the surrounding autumn-dressed trees in a nearby pond. Tickled by the wind, the pond surface rippled and the reflection wavered…still unmistakably golden trees, but altered from the original by the elements. It hit me that this was a…
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Tom and I did it. We finally dressed up for Halloween after so many party-pooper years. Now, mind you, we didn't spend a lot of forethought on these costumes… But today I was grateful that I'm a procrastinating hoarder; I was afraid I had thrown away the shoe box full of Halloween makeup, a collection…
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Do you still dress up for Halloween? On our first Halloween together, Tom and I dressed as Frankenstein (Tom, of course) and a little girl from the village (me) for a co-worker's party. His was a recycled costume from a previous Halloween, but he went all out…he even had platform shoes to make him tower above…
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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'm not going to make any excuses for this draggy, Monday-blah feeling I have. It's my own fault. I know it. I'm trying to do too much, but I have no regrets, despite the lack of sleep, and I refuse to cut anything out. Yet. So this is a Monday post – kind of a…
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