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Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Last Day of the Year

What did you do to finish off 2009? I got licked by a giraffe... Charlie got head-butted by another giraffe. Just think, we nearly got through the year with neither of those experiences! How sad would that have been, to have missed them? And what will the first thing be, that you do in 2010? It's said, after all, that whatever you are doing, it will set the tone for the whole year. I can think of a couple of things, and the likeliest is that I will be writing when the year turns, or working with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Transitions: new books; new outlooks considering Eros

It has been pretty chilly in Colorado this week, and we don't have a car to get around, so son Charlie and I have been limited in our getting about. However, one of his friends drove us out to Garden of the Gods on Sunday. The photos you may have noticed are accessible through a flickr link posted in the Adventuring blog. Today I took the best of them and put them into a new mypublisher book. It is unsurprisingly titled: Garden of the Gods. If you would like to see it, their system asks me to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

a seasonal reminder...

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Where did all the time go...? life in review, life in projection

Suddenly it is over a week since I wrote anything here... and less than a week before Christmas... and in a few days everything will be ass over teakettle but hopefully in a good way, though the cats will be less than pleased that the Prime Heat Source has gone haring off again. With son Charlie in his first home outside the dorms, his housemates away for the holidays, he wants to spend them there... asked me to come visit. His dad already had his tickets for the east coast trip, to spend... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Roller coasters are supposed to be fun

Great day yesterday, a milestone accomplished in the old novel re-visioned... a friend--the only one who really could--collaborating, letting me paw around in his brain and senses... A friend chance-met looked at me from her own place of happiness and told me I was sparkling... She has known me many years, though we rarely meet, and knows how different this is. News from youngest, now 24 and half the continent away, will not be coming home to this home for Christmas. With his father--with whom... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Running hot and cold...

It may be cold here, but at least we have sunny days, short though they may be... A lot of you across the US are getting the great snow, and the arctic cold. Remember to fill the polar bear feeders with suet... lots and lots of suet! Meanwhile, the heart here is intermittently warm... Did I say 'heart'? I meant 'hearth'-- but 'heart' is true, too. Sometimes, after an age of low-grade, barely-sufficient fuel, the heart gets lucky, and taps into the good stuff. Sure, there is gunk in the pipes,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Wind is from the north...

It blows through my open window... so do the cats, so it remains open. I also love to sleep with the freshest of air and a cold nose while all the rest of me is warm and cozy under sufficient covers. But this morning, it is making it a challenge--to cross the room from toasty bed to the door into the rest of the house which will be at least a modicum warmer. I bought bamboo thermals yesterday and will not be free of them until April, like a mountain-man, if this goes on... But they are rather... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Transitions

Thanks so much, all of you who have read here and commented! The photos in Starbuck's, yesterday's sale of a framed piece at the small gallery I've consigned a few things in, the array of remarkable and inspiring people I have been meeting lately... Oh, even stepping on the scale and discovering I'm 5 lbs under the plateau I've been stuck at for... let's just say quite some time... All this sparkling, tingling energy I feel-- It is not what has gotten me where I am, but what I am finding in that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

hanging around Starbuck's

These are two of the photos now hanging on the new local artists wall at the Starbuck's down the road. I can't find the third one to show you in my photobucket albums, but it is also a water abstract like these... a little more abstract, being of water rushing over rocks, and less clearly defined as water and rocks. That one is more about the bright glint of sunlight touching the veils of rushing grey glacial-silt laden river waters. mood: quite quite pleased! Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

It was not my intention...

...to be awake before 5 this morning, nor to be moving furniture on a day traditionally about shifting turkeys and taters and generally making a day-long feast from some kind of notable breakfast, through a casually foraged lunch, to The Big Deal towards evening. It was not my intent to get 4 hours of sleep every night for the past week or so... but for some of us, sleep comes when it will, not on demand. I did not drop a branch on the roof above my bed, creating an opening for the rain to come... Sign in to see full entry.

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