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It's a lovely morning at Portage Cove, isn't it? And time to get organized following the Fair break, when we all abandoned everything to party and socialize and volunteer and eat and play and just have a nice social, community time for four days. There's another...

"Everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it." -  From...

I like to walk and when the sun is out I have something good I can talk about... I know, terrible pun, and actually, I don't have much to say as I have a to-do list a mile long (although not as long as yours I'm sure. Everyone is crazy busy here with the Fair , fish,...

Everyone, it seems would be much happier with two things--  time and sunshine. A 36 hour day would be a lot more productive than a 24 hour one, and then there would time for summer-- and for tour guides to dry out and fishermen to sleep and gardeners to garden and us...

The good news about the rain, is that it feels like Fall, and when it feels later, the Fair doesn't sneak up on me as much. The other day I thought I may have already missed it. (No! It's this weekend.) But that's my life at the moment. (Garden produce and baked goods...

From a poem, "Snow Geese", by Mary Oliver (her arrangement of words,  a little like geese flying, see?) Oh to love what is lovely, and will not last!        What a task            to ask of anything, or anyone yet it is ours,    and not by the century or the years,...