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This World Is…
...a bit challenging. (the understatement of the week) as Annie Lamott said earlier this week, even she is losing her capacity to process catastrophe. (Stay with me, it gets better.) I am just overwhelmed by so much dire news. I donated to Episcopal Relief and...
A Veteran’s Day
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month since WW I ended 95 years ago I was babysitting my granddaughters, the great-grandchildren of two WW I veterans. At the close of the day I met with the recent widow of a WW II veteran to write his obituary by the...
Sunday’s Thought
"Do what must be done with special care and zeal so that doing it can change our consciousness and carve our souls into the kind of beauty that comes from simple things. It is so easy to go through life looking feverishly for special ways to find God when God is most...
Don’t Let the (Amazon) Stars get in Your Eyes (or Heart or Head)
It is always a mistake to check my own books' Amazon reviews, but Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs has been having a good run lately, so I stopped in. I should have known better. What a mistake. Here is the "most recent" review: “I'm still in the first...
Watch Your Hands & A Few Things to Know
Here is a pointer, in case you smash the tip of your finger in a wood-splitter and it swells up and hurts like heck. Don't unwind a paper clip and sterilize the end with a match and press into the nail. That won't work. Also, a needle probably won't poke through the...
Sweet Town of Mine
Ever have one of those moments, when for just a second, everything fits, in a kind of Karmic way? That happened to me yesterday. I was already thinking about saints, and all the people I knew who are no longer with us, as Sunday was All Saints Day at church, when we...
The First Snow
It was snowing on Mt. Ripinsky when Pearl and I began our walk this morning. By the time we got home a few flurries were flying. At morning tea-time the ground is much whiter. We had a frost yesterday that was hard enough that in spite of the sunshine and blue sky...