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Friday, December 22, 2006

Wind blowing the power out for days where I came from...

...four feet of snow on the ground where I am going next... What's happening where you are this holiday? And what do you wish for in the coming year? Plans, intentions? Dreams? I had a dream the other night that had in it grapevine like the one that puts out tendrils and leaves every year in my yard, but never has produced grapes. I dreamed I looked up and suddenly saw there were lovely lush clusters of grapes hanging from it, and they looked nearly, but not quite ripe and ready to eat. I woke... Sign in to see full entry.

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Constuctive Afternoon

dateline December22,Silver Spring, Maryland: Two new housing starts rose in the neighborhood after lunch, each consisting of gingerbread & assorted confectionary. The first offers the future tenant an unusual roof shingled completely with Swedish fish, while the second includes a masonry chimney built of candy gravel mortared together with white icing. Building came to a halt when a sudden change in weather produced a flurry of shredded coconut. Pictures, January 11. Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

How I Do Go On!--'Universe... ' Table of Contents update

Since I reduced my blogs to one, my topics have ranged widely from the initial theme of the spiritual Big Picture. And while the content still has relevance to the title, I am sorting out the Big Picture items and adding them to this list for those of you who have been particularly interested in them. Here is the December 2006 updated Table of the Contents of this blog. There are 10 items per page, but here and there have been bits that must be considered as 'asides'-- so the page splits are not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Chanukkah for the Non-Believer

A few years ago, we celebrated Channukah. We are not a Jewish family, but my first serious live-together relationship was with a man whose grandfather had been a chief Rabbi in Palestine, before the State of Israel was established. I, therefore, lived kosher for a year, and was invited to participate in three Passover Seders (I got along well with his mother, and she invited me even when he and I were no longer together). Then, a few years ago, a dear friend who was adopted at an early age and... Sign in to see full entry.

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They didn't lose my luggage-- I just forgot I had 3 pieces checked...

So--my visit in Maryland began with a trip back to the airport to pick up the third bag. There's a reason they tell you to pack your medications in your carryon. This is the reason, and next time, I will be sure to do that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 18, 2006

Peanuts OR pretzels...

In just a few hours I expect to be in the sky pointed more-or-less in an easterly direction... In my three to-be-checked bags there is laundry which couldn't get washed because the power-- easier to pack when it's toss rather than fold neatly, but harder to pack in the dark: I am not sure what, exactly, I am taking along. I hope it isn't a stack of tablecloths and bedclothes and that bag of stuff meant for donation! There are also, for sure, a gingerbread house kit and a couple of pounds of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

We were powerless...

from Thursday night's windstorm through today at 5 PM. Some folks are still huddling over candles to keep warm, or trying to cook the thawing contents of their freezers on the woodstove-- and I could do that, really I could have done that another day or two... But I am packing to leave tomorrow morning for 3 weeks far away, and man, that's no fun to do by candle-light, especially when I was gonna do my laundry Friday. Instead, I packed it in a duffle, and I will do the laundry when I get... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Mulled Cider recipe for Offbeats

Start with some of that lovely rich, unfiltered apple cider... Put it in a big pot (I like to make it on the woodstove when the fire is going strong for a while) and add several cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, cloves and allspice, plus two or three slices of orange and of lemon. After a while, when it is good and hot, ladle it into a mug and sip... Careful, it's hot! Let it boil down to make a fantastic syrup, or even further, to make an amazing, intense spiced apple candy! Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 11, 2006

My granddaughter Zoe...

I'm going to spend Christmas with my daughter and her daughter... I haven't seen them in some time, but a year ago summer they were here, and these pictures came at the end of a long and tiring day. Mama was out and Zoe was wearily eating her dinner... Then she saw I had the camera out and aimed at her: Sign in to see full entry.

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Further conversation about change... Marriage & Institution

This began as a comment in saul relative's recent blog that began with consideration of Cheney's gay daughter's exercising her free will to choose pregnancy. ( dec 6, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/ ) The issue of who should be able to marry and who, not, would never arise if we really had separation of church and state. The law is based on culture-based morality as defined by the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is hardly universal! In fact, many cultures have recognized and... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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