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Category: Independence
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colorado without oxygen
thunder its batons twirling against the mountain guardians greet me. Still I wonder what the answer is.
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notes from London
Notes from London… This morning I found my castle but its edible and in a store window in London. Oh Well! London is weird at the moment as everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Cab drivers are weirdly angry and yet life goes on. Last night a friend stopped a cab for…
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Shake it up, baby
More stuff: I was listening to the radio this morning and hearing Iran and Turkey are trading commodities. Iran is shipping uranium to Turkey in return for more “enriched uranium” for fuel rods to use in medical equipment for cancer research. This piece of news has been received with some hesitation as it does not…
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On Finding Yourself Living Alone
On Finding Oneself Living Alone When Greta Garbo said, “I vant to be alone!” she probably meant it but, because she was a glamorous movie star and a fascinating woman, no one believed it was possible for her to live without an equally glamorous companion. Photographers constantly tried to capture her on rare outings…
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Do the right thing or…
“Do the right thing…” People often say this in life and recently I have been noticing that “the right thing” is not always what everyone else thinks. Sometimes there is the right thing for you and there is the right thing the rest of the world wants you to do. I usually think I should…
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Palm Sunday and Family
Sunday started at four AM when the sprinkler system went off in my fragile house alerting me to the morning. From the small window in my bathroom I could see the palms reflected against the sky prompting me to go out in the garden and take a photo which I have posted here. If I had…
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Add some chores to your…
I have always wanted pigs, chickens and cows…..
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Moon Out of Alignment
Moon out of Alignment There are some days that feel off from the beginning. You get woken up in the middle of the night by a chirping smoke alarm battery or your dog poops someplace and you don’t have a bag with you or someone, anyone, gives you a hard time before you have had…
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Single at Christmas once again
I think we should reschedule Christmas for every third year. It comes too often. There is too much stuff in my house and I feel worried about not having enough stuff. I keep on looking for more stuff and worrying that my children will be disappointed in what I have created for Christmas. This happens…
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Square red planter
There is something very inspiring about an empty planter. Sometimes I leave planters unfilled for an entire season. This is disturbing to many and inspiring to others.I like the looks of this empty red planter because it looks as if it has been empty for a long time. This morning in the Times there is…
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