Category Archives: life around us

NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day Five

Don’t you look at those magazine checklists and think – if only it were that simple… All this confusion is, well, confusing me I can’t tell anymore: Am I anxious? Depressed? Angry? Sorrowful? Distracted? It rises within me, whatever it … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day One

And we’re off, today taking a quiet lesson from the wee beasts I live with: This morning, I turned off the radio, needing to believe that evil will not win. In the end, it will not conquer. So, silence the … Continue reading

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Tuesday Cold and Clear and Cold

It was 6F when I left the house and all the water in the car was frozen like a rock. That’s ok. I made a big loop, looking here and there and then I came home and did geeky stuff.

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Night Visitors (and day)

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What’s important

Via brainpickings: The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies. […] After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, … Continue reading

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