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A New Year’s Column. (Sort of)
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it - every, every minute?” –Thornton Wilder The best thing, or one of the best things, about living at 59 degrees and 14 feet North and latitude...
A New Video, Chapter 2
Hi all, Chapter 2 of of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs should be here. It's also on the Videos tab on my website. I think this is the best way to notify you, but bear with me as I figure this out. A techie I am not (but luckily I have had a lot of help...
I’m Reading to You, Right Now.
I have just posted the first chapter of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs on my website, you may go to the new section "videos" to watch it. (I think, it may take a bit to all line up.) I plan on reading the book, all 15 chapters, through April, so will post...
Sunday’s Thought
From Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies: “Our preacher Veronica said recently that this is life's nature: that lives and hearts get broken -- those of people we love, those of people we'll never meet. She said that the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of the...
Faith, Hope and Bunkbeds.
In yoga yesterday (via Zoom) Mandy talked a lot about hope, or as much as a person does talk in yoga, and while she always reminds us to set our intention for the practice (for non yogis that means your good thought for the class. Your intention is the word that your...
A Few Words about April
It's been a busy morning reading the news, riding my bike through London on Zwift, eating breakfast with Chip, listening to the radio news, texting the kids, reading the news, walking the dogs, checking the updates on the virus, calling my friend Betty over at Haines...
Happy Tuesday? What’s the Alternative?
I alternate between laughter-- those videos people keep sending me really are funny. Have you seen Pluto the talking Schnauzer?-- and tears, like when I listen to or watch the news of the suffering and dying-- especially those families with a grandpa in the hospital...