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Mother’s Day Every Day

Oh the mother lode, it is possibly the weightiest topic we could ever try to articulate. Tin and I drove across the lake to see my aunt and cousins and feast. They know how to put on a spread – roast beef, corn on the cob boiled in coconut milk, cornbread salad, green beans, two kinds of potato salad, rolls, and a dessert table that was buckling under its own weight. I ate too much!!…

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Panties on the floor

I woke this morning after a long day’s journey through conversation and pizza and there was a pair of panties on the floor, only they were almost small enough for a barbie doll and I realized they belonged to my friend’s daughter who had been in the pool. Sign of the times. I read in the NYT that Loudon Wainwright said if families didn’t break up there would be no need for art and so…

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First the words then the pictures

I took some interesting pics in the last day and a half and will post them when I remember to bring my phone up to where my computer is. It will happen. My friend with her beautiful blog posts Wordless Wednesdays that are always so beautiful they make you want to live her life. But I digress. Last night, I went to sleep in a tizzy, woke up to write, and went back to bed…

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Onward weary (wary) soldiers

I woke way too early, I went back to sleep, and my horoscope for today had a good message so I took it and ran with it. May 12, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) If your life is a circle (and you’re standing in the middle of it), are you going to spend energy turning around, giving equal focus to your past, present, and future? Of course not — if you did, you would get awfully dizzy…

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a little rain must fall

Yesterday, I had mapped out a plan for the afternoon into the evening. I was going to go and get paint to fix the front porch that I had had repainted last year, but then the repair man had set the tanks of termite poison on either side of the porch and left two large drum circles that had eaten off the paint that had now attracted debris and bugs and two circles of yuck.…

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The world and everything in it

There is a great line in Scarface, well there are many great lines, but one is when Al Pacino – Tony Montana says, I want what is coming to me. His bud Manny asks, What’s coming to you? Tony says, “The world, chico, and everything in it.” I juxtaposed that line against another line from a poem, The World Is Too Much With Us: The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth The…

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never underestimate the power of good

I was reading in a book about Rosa Parks. Do you know the story behind her. She had boarded a bus after working a long shift and sat in her designated place. She did. But the rule then was if the white area filled up the blacks had to vacate their designated space to give it to white people. She didn’t. She made history because she refused. Thank you Sister Rosa Parks – your history…

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