Thursday, May 16, 2013
Strange and wonderful!
The sun is shining through the jungle outside my bedroom window, and is very cheering. I suppose it will grey up and rain again later, but for now, it's very heartening. In CoSpring, there is a downstairs room that peers out into the backyard from beneath the small deck and steps down to the yard. It is barren now, the yard--more a sandlot than a place to enjoy. I have plans to plant shade-loving plants in the shade under the deck, hanging some from the wooden supports, because ever since I...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
They told me it would be warm...
warm and sunny, very pleasant, the best kind of weather in the Northwest... but they lied. It hasn't been near 80F, it's barely making it to 70, and the skies play with sunshine in the morning, but soon it will be raining again. I looked up the weather forecast, so didn't pack for this. I wasn't psyched for it. I am annoyed, feeling cold and cheated. It makes me positively cranky. At least, in the warmer days leading up to these, flowers have blossomed--here's your good news, CCT: dark purple...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
It's done
The eye surgery was accomplished without any unlooked-for (heheh... eye pun there) complications. Recovery time will be about the next week, after which he should be able to drive and lift things over 20 lbs. and get around without walking into posts. I fly back to Violetta and Charlie and my place around the 28th. And then we do it again in July, for the other eye. Thanks, everyone, for your good wishes!
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Monday, May 13, 2013
"Well, here we are back in the car again..."
The weather report online said it was in the 70s, near 80sF, and sunny days, clear nights... The guy driving the plane said, "Light rain in Seattle, and 61 degrees." And so it was, when we touched down near 10PM. Waking this morning in my old room, my comfortable old bed, I see in daylight the lush green of the northwest spring, fully leafed-out, and wet. When I was here a month ago, the houses beyond the woods were visible. Now--we could be in some deep, secluded glade of the rainforest, and no...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
The Uneasy Mother
Mothering isn't easy. In fact, it is one of the most demanding jobs in the world, and one of the very most important to get right. Knowing how important that is, makes it that more demanding, and makes mothers who are so afraid they aren't up to it, and wrestle with guilt and feelings of shame and inadequacy when perfection remains elusive... Well, I'm here to tell you what I heard from someone else--guy named Bruno Bettelheim--that mothers ( he said "parents" in fact, but today isn't Parent's...
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Sigh... 20-something acting like ... much younger.
I asked him days ago if he could drive me to the airport on Sunday afternoon. He seemed to think it over, then said, sure he could. No problem. Sunday afternoon. This guy can be kinda flaky, but this seemed safe enough--soon enough and simple. But last night I heard from my roomer, who is a friend of his, that, in fact, he can't do it, his car might not be up to it. That's annoying and very inconvenient. But what really ticks me off was that he didn't tell me as soon as he knew, he didn't tell...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Everything is up in the air for Mom's Day
I sent off a card to my mom, and it should get there Saturday. As for me, Sunday evening I will be flying away for another week in Olympia, while Charlie's dad has his eye surgery. This time, flying: it is a lot cheaper as well as faster, compared to driving or any other form of transport, unless they've got that beaming technology down by now. Wouldn't that be great? At first, we'd all have to buy tickets and stand in long lines, like security lines, only the booth at the end of the line simply...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
grey day in the Springs
Days of soft rain are not usual in this part of the world, and so they are more respected and even relished, unlike the perpetual precip that (literally) rains down on Seattle and Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula. Thanks to that rain, there are the wonderfully hoary old rain forests. But it still gets tedious, living with it far from those forests. Shiny, wet, grey, dismal city streets... On a trip through northern California, years ago, I recall sitting in a diner hearing people going on...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Puzzled...
I have reached the point in this jigsaw puzzle that was started at my housewarming party, where it has become addictive. I can't seem to walk by without stopping to fiddle, and maybe even fiddle a couple of pieces into place. It's at the point where large sections of the image suddenly fit into the edges waiting for them, and other sections suddenly fit into them... The puzzle is an old one, the very first Springbok Editions round jigsaw puzzle, and made of wood instead of paper. It is an...
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Charlie as Prospero
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