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In the land of gestalt

Imagine you are not the child, that you are the parent, or that you are both – the child and the parents – now imagine that you are the caretaker and the one being cared for – whose zooming who? It’s hard to say around here. When I look at this Fab Four that were lounging around the backyard today, I was thinking to myself – all of you are riding on my coattails –…

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In the land of home maintenance

So the columns have been sanded, sterilized to stop the mold that got in from the breakdown of the finish, and now the hardware has been replaced and the holes have been plugged. Don’t ask what this is going to cost. Basically the design was to expose the metal hardware but in doing that the metal bolts created an open gateway into the wood and so removing the bolts we found everything had rusted meaning…

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In the land of fairy tales

This has been a slogging month – October – not what I expected it to be – there have been panic attacks, heart palpitations, depression, sadness, anxiety, computer death, dress death, and so on. But right now here is the state of the union – I’ve got a 30 day heart monitor to record what the cardiologist thinks is arrhythmia, I’ve got a brand new MacBook Pro 15″ (which I’m still trying to get wired…

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Cling to me

My computer died this weekend and the road to recovery has been long. A third party adapter ordered through Amazon that failed. A trip to Apple after many phone calls to the tech support yielded an official Apple adapter. Then I got home and the computer failed again. Then a trip back today to understand that my computer purchased in December 2004 (really?) with its new hard drive that was installed in June 2007 is…

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In the land of gone pecans

I used to work with a guy who called everyone a gone pecan and this afternoon when I went out to take a walk and shed some of this overdrive happening in my brain, I saw my neighbors in the empty lot picking up all the dropped pecans. I remember my grandmother had a pecan tree where we used to gather pecans too. Then I walked by my other neighbors’ house and they were speaking…

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Do kids make you boring?

I have a ton of photos and videos of Tin this weekend. He’s been walking around with his drum stick on his shoulder getting down to what he imagines is his TROMBONE. We watched a bunch of YouTube clips of Trombone Shorty, who started playing at 4 years of age, and he gets so jazzed when he sees Troy that he cradles his drumstick right on his shoulder and starts his imaginary playing. My computer…

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Lighten up

I’ve gotten so many replies to the entries I did back when I had that TCA Peel, you’d think I should blog about that – most everyone is so pleased that I exposed my skin peeling off my face and what it looked like – it’s interesting hardly anyone comments on the other exposure – the one where you turn inside out. It’s like internal exfoliation is run of the mill, but external, now that’s…

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Back in the day

I’ve spent a good deal of today trying to get over three evenings out last week and Friday night in with friends and for the life of me, that used to be nothing, but now it’s like I was running a marathon and just stopped. I lay in bed this afternoon instead of going to the acrobatic workshop at Swan River, the bootcamp at NOAC, the bike ride to the lakefront – I was paralyzed…

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Be the goat you are

I was reading about this woman who went to work on a farm so that she could unplug from her harried world and one thing she learned was that goats are divided into followers and leaders, and if there is not a leader in the group then they run around like chickens with their heads cut off. I’ve been doing some reading recently trying to uncover who I am and what I am good at…

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