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Things for which I am grateful

August 8, 2010

I have the best family and friends on the planet. Just saying. Photo: Grandma Sawyer’s apple tree, which likes to produce three-apple clusters. Photographed by me with an iPhone and the Hipstamtic appon August 7, 2010 in Palos Verdes, CA

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Awe Some

July 22, 2010
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Beside the Road

July 14, 2010

I was driving around today, running a bunch of errands, enjoying the sunshine, and randomly taking in the messages on the big billboards along the way. It seemed like a lot of the billboards carried advertisements for beer of some kind or another, and this intrigued me. I mean, I don’t know why it would [...]

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Save ice in the winter

July 8, 2010

More talk today about preservation. This time Suesanne and I were comparing notes about how each of our great grandfathers would cut and save ice in the winter for use in the summer. It must have been early 1900s when they were doing this, her great grandfather in North Dakota and mine in western Montana. [...]

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Fanning majestic flames

March 22, 2010

I had begun to miss the spontaneous dinner parties of my friend, Tiberio. Tiberio makes magic food–his secret ingredients are passion and love. His dinner party guests are from the jumble of his collection of friends and acquaintances–always an eclectic array of other passionate and loving people. But Tiberio has been busy traveling, and seeking [...]

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You didn’t not get a valentine from me.

February 14, 2010

You did not not get a valentine from me this year. No one got a valentine from me this year. It wasn’t just you. I know. I know. I ALWAYS send valentines. But this year I did not. And I am probably more saddened by that than you are. Not to keep the focus on [...]

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but who’s counting?

December 31, 2009

It is 2:38 a.m. and I have been awake now for about an hour, after not quite three hours of sleep. Pretty much normal for me anymore, to sleep a few hours, wake, rustle around, sleep, wake, rustle rustle. It’s wearing on me. And I am feeling sad. There’s this thing that has been happening [...]

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truth

December 6, 2009

Over the last few months I have been doing a lot of what I call “spewing”–essentially verbally vomiting my feelings and thoughts, with minimal regard for “what will people think.” I mean, I have been conscientious of the possibility of causing undue harm, and I have tried to avoid that. But otherwise, I have been [...]

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It is not for me to decide

December 5, 2009

Recently I have walked right on by several pan-handlers, without making a monetary gift to them. I make eye contact and smile, but I move along without handing over any cash. I have had a few arguments in my head: “Oh, all I have is a five” or “All my money is buried in the [...]

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Just saying thanks.

December 4, 2009

I have always been a bit of a social klutz. I like to blame it on my  parents’ own dearth of social interactions (so I had little example from which to learn) and my Myers Briggs reading (INT/FJ) — I tend to the Introvert realm of existence. But, I have been working on overcoming my [...]

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