Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Strictly Physical
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"Where are you going, my little one, little one? Where are you going, my baby my own? Turn around and you're two, turn around and you're four, turn around and you're a young girl going out of the door." This song (originally sung by Harry Belafonte) is the background music to my life these days as…
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I am such a creature of habit…routines…well-worn ruts. For instance, every morning, Monday through Friday, I wake up around 5am (my body, that is…my mind joins it about a half hour later.) I get the coffee going, turn on the computer, eat breakfast. Always the same thing – coffee, a glass of milk, and a slice…
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…you have redeemed the world. Kendall and I slipped into a back row during the second station – a little late, but not too much. Tommy had called, delaying me leaving the house. It's hard to say goodbye to a son you rarely see. But I hadn't attended Stations of the Cross yet this Lenten season…
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People around here badmouth the cedar trees (technically a type of juniper, but we call them cedar – don't ask me why, because I don't know!) They are looked down on because they spread fast and drink up all the water. They gang up on oak trees and anything else that has roots and leaves. Don't…
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My heart raced when I saw the smoke billowing just off the back deck. Fire? Here in the hollow, in the middle of a drought, a fire quickly becomes a raging monster, destroying everything in its path, which is mostly cedar, and cedar EXPLODES in a fire, especially DRY cedar like we have now, and our house is…
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How quickly resolutions can dissolve once the real world – like work – makes its appearance. I won't go through a boring list of what I did or didn't get done today. Let's just say it's a good thing I resolved to be flexible and not stress about it…too much, anyway. Work is both a…
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Someone asked me the other day how I had lost weight, and one of my dearest friends answered, "She quit eating." She winked at me – I knew she was just messing with me, because we were at a graduation celebration and I was eating from a plateful of 'celebration' food…
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TG is sleeping. She had her wisdom teeth removed this morning. I have the kitchen timer set so that every twenty minutes, I pull a frozen gelpack from the freezer and wrap it in a towel. I gently lift her head to remove the warm one, then rest the coldest one on the opposite side…
Long Hollow 