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Jim just had me go across the creek and up in the clearing to bring back Joana’s pickup. We went in the side by side thingie - I wore my seat belt. The sun had set and left this exquisite blu...

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Have you ever thought of giving someone/someone here advice without being asked? Or even if asked? I know it’s never welcome. But sometimes it just looks like people have blind spots. It l...

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I guess those of us who had our abortions when it was legal are the lucky ones.

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Today’s his birthday. He’s 78 if he’s still alive. I have a mutual friend I ask about him but the last few times the friend hasn’t had anything to say about him. I have a phone number that I ...

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Ideas Plans Goals Well what about them? I have no ideas. I have almost no plans. I definitely have no goals. There that takes care of that. What do I have? Cats. Potato chip crumbs. Bad hair. A f...

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For the last five years or perhaps longer, every summer the Bible is read on our county courthouse lawn. It takes a whole weekend. It gives me the creeps. Every year I want to protest it. ...

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… things. I wonder if I gain anything at all. It’s that point in life, I suppose. That time when you see what’s gone, not what’s here. Days pile up. Some in front, more behind. The one that c...

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Someone posted a different version of this song today. Then I looked up the lyrics. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gi...

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I saw the Julia Belle Swain going upstream by Riverside Park this morning. https://www.rotarylights.org/live-river-cam.html Here’s John Hartford’s lyrics. This is a song about the Julia Belle Sw...

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Favorite author? Well I have a string of them. James Baldwin. Graham Greene. John Updike. Theodore Dreiser. Michener, a bit. The spy guys. Le Carre. Maugham. Greene, again. Fitzgerald. Sinclair...

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… this one with booze. https://sherpglobal.com/ Oh wait. Wrong link. This one’s good too. They come from Ukraine. Honest. Here’s the artist. https://www.lethbridgegallery.com/artist/oliver-s...

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His name is Charles Sheeler. And here is a site that tells about him. Look at his quotes if you can. There are seven of them in the middle lower part of the frame. Click through to read th...

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I have change. So I took my coins out of my walking rotation. I put the quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies into their respective collection glass jars on the counter. I have plenty of bot...

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Watch Merle flirt - it was 1978!!!! - and the sexy fiddle player, my god.

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How sane are we? Just me? Two LLBean catalogs came today. Nice stuff. Some large(r) scale models. I just at a whole (small) bag of salt water taffy. I can’t believe that’s good for my diabe...

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The Dems are having their county convention today. Jim has left already and I don’t think I”m going. I’d like to hear the candidate for U.S. Rep speak - she’s a former tv news reporter and I ...

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So I skipped the bitch who was handy with a louse detector until she got sloshed, and then I find myself with, hello their!, the chest was lined with the fleece of an enchanted sheep. I think i...

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Middle of the night. Eating crackers and peanut butter with Gracie. I forget what happens tomorrow. Something though. I hope.

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The squirrels knock their cones together, releasing seeds for supper. Species grew apart first in separate worlds, then later together Warming each other in winter, fanning their armpits with gre...

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Listening to a Woody Allen interview. He just gave advice and I forgot it immediately. But since I’m writing here, I’ll go back and listen again. Ah, here it is. “Don’t think about it....

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Yesterday was so glorious I walked my five and a half mile loop right after sunrise. First time in years I’ve done that. And poor crippled up lumpy dog Gracie followed me all the way to the o...

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The horse wore a crisp van dyke beard, had clear dark eyes, and a sense of caper. I will cater to him with lush second crop alfalfa. This is the time when everything that eats green is looki...

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How’s the world treating you? Any plans? Not really. Every day you’re away. Our pathways have parted. To your memory I’m true. Are you lonesome without me? Great lyrics ---- I’ve had nothing b...

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