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Monday, July 26, 2010

Rodeo!

(Darson's post today and for the past several days, stimulated this http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Darson/ ) While living with my grandparents in California, from the time I was 3 to almost 6, the rodeo was an event every now and then that meant sitting down front in the grandstands, watching the events--I liked calf-roping best, as I recall. It also meant those perfect (today probably perfectly awful) hamburgers with ketchup and relish that were the consummate cuisine to my infant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

News from the front.. at last!

"The troops are doing great. Good work with the locals and the district-level government, which is the point of us being there. We are getting more of the bad guys than they are of us, which isn't the main reason for being there but is part of the game." My friend in Afghanistan emailed, and I was online when it came in... my reply brought another reply back... I am more than a little cheered to have had some actual conversation, even if only for 15 minutes. I had not heard from him since March... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Disappointment...

Well. The Senegal trip is, at best, postponed. When I contacted the organizer recently, she told me, unhappily, someone else in line ahead of me has taken the last opening for it. I did not come up with the funds fast enough, I surmise. Well, there is next year, January of 2012. As promised to all who contributed toward my trip there, all the monies you sent will be forwarded directly to Friends of Gueoul, to support the girls and their scholarships. Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sally's Garden--blooming still!

It was Sally that really got me started posting pictures, she so loves the flowers! For her, I set up a site in Cafepress called Sally's Garden, and every picture of flowers I have ever taken since has been in some part for her. I know this will not change... I am sure wherever Sally is, her Garden surrounds her, and every flower that has or ever will draw my eye or my lens, will forever bloom there. That which is beautiful does not die, it only passes into other loveliness... (anon) EDIT! happy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

reprise and revise

AFTERMATH The impassioned moment's passed, The fight's gone out of me; tolerance and hope set in with a sigh and by-and-by this latest violence, outrage, assault against the heart and soul will pass-- and leave me living still and still possessed of most of what I had; Life goes on sublime, absurd, expects the future still makes plans invests and wanders down the middle course again somewhere between the hopeless and the glad. Disappointment gnaws away at faith. Perhaps, because our planet turns... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

a ramble in the woods of cyberworlds

Haven't been writing much of late... so many factors! but finally a poem emerged, first in a long while that wanted out so badly...! It is one of the expressions of deep stresses surfacing. Stressors can seem so small, so unimportant, so manageable... a little headache... a leaky roof, but only when it rains a lot... the rain itself... a draggedout chilly spring... a friend in a war zone, not heard from in over 2 months... For me, it is easy to escape the daily and long-term stressors by... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

One of those days...

Oh I can sit in my warm bed and feel my day has been for naught or worse for I have fumbled badly with a friend and feel unloved and distant from my joy and happiness that filled the hours before the broken minute when it changed... I can sit glum and nurse an ache within my belly and my heart as if forgiveness cannot be although this friend I know is better far than that. But then... I think again: remember that the world is darker far and full of deeper pain than mine, and hungers that devour... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

letter to a friend

This is an excerpt from a letter I composed tonight and sent off into the void of Internet... I write to someone who can't write back... I can only assume the email is received, or will be received and read and maybe replied to. It is not only the future: sometimes the present is uncertain, too. Sold a photo today (an elephant's eye, photographed at the National Zoo in DC) and discovered a friend. The buyer and I sat and chatted with great vigor for about an hour and a half at Starbucks. Good... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

A new Postcard from Kabul today

Every time I read one of souljacker's posts, I want to know how to help out. It is no longer possible to send things addressed simply to A US Serviceman, not since 9/11. But I am sure there are things that would be no great sacrifice to send, that would boost morale or even provide something to help keep the soldiers--our sons and fathers and brothers, our sisters and mothers and daughters, too--some little bit safer. I read recently of a patrol that came into an ambush and was split up, and one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

What's this...!? What's this...!?

My younger daughter, the one who lives in New Zealand and trains dogs, is visiting this week. My daughter gets me doing things I never considered doing before she declared them good and fun and reasonable things to do. Mostly, they have revolved around the enjoyment of doing... girl stuff. I never had manicures before she dragged me along when she went to get her nails done. When I visited her in Singapore, she took us for a Chinese foot massage. Today, she kicked it up a notch... a big notch,... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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