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Monday, April 27, 2020

Flash Fiction

The challenge was to do a quick, short write based on a couple of photos: a black and white image of a tall youngish man and short, older woman appearing to say goodbyes in a place like Grand Central Station maybe in the 1950s; a display of completed Heathkit electronics. Both are historic, dated 1964. Here's mine: "You know I'm going to miss you, but you have no idea how much!" "Yes, I know, and I know how much. But I can't stay with you forever, you know this, too. I have to go out into the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Another Monday

The nights are getting warmer, the windows are open, and last night I delighted in hearing a single bird singing out its farewell to the day, clear and bright as can be! I could see it, perched at the very top of an old blue spruce across the street. I sent a pm to Charlie who lives next door, and he was hearing it too. It was a good moment. It was like those nights you look up at a brilliant moon and know that across the continent, someone you love is looking at the same moon, too. This morning... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Good things sometimes look like bad things.

Okay... adding another twist to the isolation game: My tv remote has ceased to function. Yes, I changed the batteries, to no avail. I turned the tv on... and now I can't even turn it off, let alone tune into my channels/apps. There's a replacement on order that promises to arrive by Friday. Okay. So, a few days without tv... I can live with that, I have before, but I am no longer used to it. I am Spoiled. One more means of escaping the tedium of boredom, out of reach. One might even say, truly... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 24, 2020

and another thing...

The yearning to return to 'normal' is, maybe, a kind of emotional reflex, the yearning to 'go home again.' But 'home' was never how we recall it in our fantasies, and who we are now is not who we were then. We can own this, and make a better home, a better 'normal' than the one that actually brought us to where we are now. Sign in to see full entry.

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Inject Lysol...?

This guy reminds me of the woman who called the Hayden Planetarium when I was a volunteer there just after the first moon landing. It was raining a LOT in New York City that summer. I happened to pick up the phone when she called to suggest--because the astronomers probably hadn't thought of it--that when they were tromping around up there on the moon, they broke the shell. She was right, of course: the astronomers had not thought of that. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Well, here's a thing...

Thinking about Earth Days I've known and been part of, I looked up Procession of the Species, an annual event in Olympia, Washington for 25 years now. I was, by happy accident, in the very first Procession, carrying a banner, a batik sarong fabric I'd just bought before coming across the staging area for the parade through the streets of downtown Olympia. Charlie, aged 9, was with me, and we marched together to the beat of the samba bands and dancers that have always been a hallmark of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Evening Thunder

Yes, after a grey day, the clouds piled up, and the rain was visible across the valley, against the mountains. And then there was thunder! Pretty early in the year for thunderstorms, they are usually a high summer kind of thing. I 'babysat' with my granddaughter Elsa today. We've discovered that we can hang out face to face on her mommy's 'portal' app, and a couple of times now, I have sat with her, watching her play and draw, and she holds up her artwork every so often for me to admire. She... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Expeditions and Arrivals

I went grocery shopping for the first time in three weeks yesterday. Charlie has been going into the store with my list up to now, but I have a nice new filter mask now, and there are things I have to choose myself, like coffee. The coffee supply in my cupboard has been getting very low, and the one bag of grounds still there is a coffee that as it turned out, I don't like very much. I looked online for coffees that can be delivered to my door, considered several--but the most interesting ones... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Living in the days of pandemic

Spring day yesterday, snow day today... but spring is gaining on winter day by day. I'm sitting here waiting for my hair to dry enough to go back to bed for a while, feeling so sleepy I am fading out while typing. But the parakeets are chirpy enough to keep the house from being too quiet. I noticed when I was outside that the sounds of the surrounding city and the interstate highway about two miles away are much quieter. So much we hear without hearing in normal times! The 'keets seem to react... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Avocado Wonderland

My favorite avocados are the great big ones grown in Florida, sometimes called Alligator Pears, and only available at grocery stores rarely and briefly. So I signed up with the Miami Fruit Company about 3 months ago, committing to at least 4 shipments of their really large avocados. They are not so much large, as huge! These big ones have big seeds that I've had better luck starting than any of the smaller Haas seeds, so that's a bonus along with the bigness and flavorfulness of these mighty... Sign in to see full entry.

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