Haiku And Other Aperçus

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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Sunday Phone Call To Grandma From FL

Megan (6 yrs old): "Grandma, when you read a book, does it ever feel like you're inside the book?" Grandma (Me): "Yes, sometimes. How about you? Does it ever feel like you're inside the book?" Megan: "Actually, that happens all the time." Mandy (teen): "Grandma, I r ode the Sky Coaster last night... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Ellipsis

Snow is forecast... again, and cold, oh so cold, white, frozen, slick, deep. Snow is forecast... again. But spring will come... green, warm, soft breezes, blossoms pink and white. Spring will come... again. My eyes love the white... sparkling in the sun, icicles hanging, growing longer as they drip.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Challenge From UtahJay

I think because it is your idea that you should go first, I will follow...I promise...Trust me. ~ UtahJay Love Your Selfie Week It has been a long ten years since I joined Blogit. I've gotten old and fat and silly, totally white, and I never worry with make-up anymore, but that's me. Of course I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Phonitis

The advent of the cell phone/Smart phone/mobile phone has brought about a magnificent obsession, an addiction of epidemic proportions. Can anyone just be still, to meditate, or to wait unentertained for even a short period of time without the hand nervously reaching, the finger pointing, swiping,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Every-Day Three

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Today I'm looking at the fine picture by Thomas... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Dancing In Diapers

Great-Grandbaby Marianna (Baisy) is growing out of the "Baisy" stage. She is growing up so fast, partly because she spends so much time with her four-year-old cousin Miranda. Cousin has been taking dance lessons since age two and Marianna goes to every showing at the NW MO Academy of Dance. Then she... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 17, 2014

I Confess

Whatever it was I ate must not have agreed with me, for I have had gastronomic disturbances all day. I tried going out four different places, four different times and none of them worked out the way I had intended. I finally ended up in bed for a nap without much of anything being accomplished.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

On Choosing What To Wear

In the meantime, Great-grandbaby Marianna (Baisy), continuously entertains herself, and everyone around her. At twenty months old, she insists on choosing what she is going to wear every day, and changes clothing at will, coming up with some of the most outlandish outfits one could imagine. In this... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

I Know When To Quit

Today I feel as if the polar vortex were sitting on my head and squeezing my brain in such a way to make it worthless of logical thought. I haven't gone out today. In fact, I didn't go out yesterday. I'm putting off until tomorrow the errands I should have done today, and hoping for a rise in... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 27, 2014

The Last Resort

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." ~ Thomas Merton In the back of my mind, even on my wedding day, was the unspoken idea that my man loved me so much... Sign in to see full entry.

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