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82. Plus ça change…the circle of life

Life in August and September has been lively: anniversaries, birthdays, the start of school, funerals, a wedding, and two houses that compete for our attention. The start of school means back to work —...

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90. Blessings on your house

For the rest of Advent and Christmas I will be finishing up my gratitude project for the past year. It was never intended to be anything but for me to document my gratitude and blessings, and help me...

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For my friend

My friend Nancy died last night after a long fight with cancer. This is for you, Nance. A blue jay came to sit on my window sill as my friend was dying. I thought Do birds take our spirits to heaven?...

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91. 14 for ’14

Reblogged with additions for 2014. Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for reading. There are two kinds of people in the world: 1. those who would go to Times Square for New Years Eve, and those who...

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106. These days…

“The purpose of art is washing the daily dust of life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso The last few weeks there has been a lot of daily dust on my soul. On my body too, as we sweep the city house clean...

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114. For the love of rainy days

There is a spare beauty in gray mist floating and rising from the valley floor, Droplets on the window panes, the quiet whishing of rain on the trees. Melancholy, some say. But it teaches patience and...

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115. Tourists

This morning a group of tourists stopped by the cottage. They were a noisy bunch, Fluttering and chirping around the poke berries at the shrubby edge between mowed and wild. The binoculars were missing...

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116. One City House FOR SALE

Seasons change — from spring to summer, from fall to winter… Each time has its own beauty; I am grateful to live in a place where all four seasons are distinct. (Ask me that in late February, and I...

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Landmark

It’s a local landmark in our front yard. “Is that the building with the tree in the middle?” They ask. We nod and smile. Only the old folks remember it used to be a fruit-stand. Bleachers built in a...

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Natural World

The sky invites The sycamores to dance. Bare branches Bend and sway Curtsying to one another In proper fashion. Meanwhile the leaves have flown. They turn up around back Loitering by the steps, Rabble...

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Warmth

With the fading light goes warmth. On vacation for the winter. Gone South with the birds. Instead of following the birds, Follow the cat. He knows the warmest spot In the house. gratitude for my cat...

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Architecture

When we were seventeen, We carved our initials on the inside of this bridge. Desecrating public property, Yes. I know. Thirty some years later we drove down that same road to see if we could find the...

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Landscape

Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again, and the title has become an often-quoted phrase about change and memory. Yet here I am. Back home in These High Green Hills. Living within two miles of my...

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Triumph

The orange leaves triumph for but a time; then fall to the ground to be raked, bagged, wind blown, composted – changed. the tree triumphs for but a time then falls to the ground to be chopped, burned,...

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122. Quiet

December isn’t usually a quiet month. But for some reason, (God-appointed perhaps?) quiet is my focus-word for December. It wasn’t supposed to be — December was to be Joy or Giving… Yet here it is: one...

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123. 15 for ’15

This is my annual New Year’s post with additions for 2015. Happy New Year everyone. Thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing my little space in cyberspace. There are two kinds of people in the...

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133. No Time to Write

So what happens when one finally gets settled into a routine at the cottage where one has spent three years preparing to live? Life. Yes. Life. Yes. Life. Happens. There’s a new job. There’s a...

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the venerable stump

the stubborn old stump at the roadside has resisted removal. It must have been a fine, towering tree, three feet through, touching the sky… Once… i thought it Unsightly until it bloomed. Beauty in old...

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148. The Cure for Christmas Scrooges

I’ve been feeling rather like a scrooge these days. The world’s a mess, it’s dark december, and why should i buy more stuff to give to people who already have too much stuff when so much of the world...

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The Promise

The promise of Spring is here buried under the snow of February. The earth awakens from sleep. Just as Jesus can awaken the frozen darkness of your soul and resurrect it to life and beauty and promise....

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