Category Archives: Do the Work

In the front yard

Perhaps you’re wondering how much longer on the daffodils friends, but I look forward to them every year and it seems a short season to me. I am glad that they survived the snow yesterday and that today it was … Continue reading

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Day 20 NaPoWriMo 2022

There was much on my mind today and I was reminded and tried to remind myself that we can’t all fix all the problems of the world. If you save one life it is as though you have saved the … Continue reading

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Day 19 NaPoWriMo 2022

Last night around ten the wind started howling, something wet started hitting the windows and before you knew it, snow! Well, the weather guys had been salivating over this nor’easter so it wasn’t too big a surprise but still. My … Continue reading

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Day 18 NaPoWriMo 2022

Today was warm, sort of. The morning was a write off. I drove over to New Lebanon and stopped at Hand Hollow. Things looked brown and green seemed far off even thouogh it’s *right there* – so close. Not yet. … Continue reading

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Day 17 NaPoWriMo 2022 – Haiku Day

I am calling it a rest day, since I was out and around and ate way too much for dinner tonight. Here are the haiku that I mushed together with minor massaging into yesterday’s sonnet: april seventeen easter, pesach, ramadan … Continue reading

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