Important, hopeful reading

I expect to be in Paris when you read this, taking many pictures and storing up adventures to tell you about when I return. While I may find a computer and Internet access to post…

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Meme Time — some Paris reading

IndigoAlison tagged me with a meme that requires me to 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five…

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Random Thoughts on a Sick Day

I’m home sick today, hoping that one good day of rest will stave off the bronchitis or laryngitis that I’ve seen develop in colleagues from this same nasty bug. I’m getting impatient for a return…

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some winter beauty, warm legs, good reading

Although I complain about the cold weather lately, and the ice and snow makes it hard to hike up the hill to work, when the sun comes out and shines on the snow-capped Coast Mountains…

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someday coherence?

Reading Laurie Ricou’s Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory, I find this quotation from poet and essayist Kim Stafford’s book The Muses Among Us: “coherence is born of random abundance” (31). Random abundance! I love…

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Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.