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repository for the occasional perambulatory rumination

Apr

7

so many different ways to spell my name

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b.c. (before computers) my system was rolodex cards. those little notched cards were my memory, my vault, my information storage system. i had boxes and boxes and still more boxes of rolodex cards, all neatly and logically arranged in categories – some duplicated for placement in more than one category.
this past weekend we did something [...]

Apr

6

gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “we live in a zoo”

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it’s been so long, i hardly know where to start. though i’ve missed blogging regularly (go here if you want to know why), after a while it became almost a dread. what would i say? there’s so much that’s happened – how do i choose? i created this blog to help me distill, clarify, and [...]

Feb

20

life in the (chaotically) moving lane

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we finally have internet access (don’t even get me started) (have been trying to become a comcast customer since 1/16/09). things have been moving incredibly, agonizingly slowly (especially for one who functions best in an orderly environment) as we wait on this one then that one. as we run into this roadblock and over this [...]

Feb

4

gone fishing, cont’d

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alas, there was no miracle.

Feb

3

gone fishing

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i have trouble staying in the lines. it’s something i’ve always wrestled with. i’m not talking about coloring (tho’ i have certainly had my share of angst with that) this time i’m talking about what you might call boundary issues. i don’t seem to know how to draw them, how to maintain them, how to [...]

Jan

30

cleaning the old door as meditation

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i fall into a rhythm. . . eventually.
i am reluctant to start projects, dreading the inevitable interruptions. what will someone need next? how long will i have before i am beckoned away? will i ever really finish?
begin the way you intend, acey says. and so i begin.
84 small panes of glass. 3 squirts with [...]

Jan

14

operation: move . . . maybe

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spent today furniture shopping. we’ve moving, you see – at least i think we’re moving. back in november we found this property that had me saying “ohhhh nooooo” and clutching my heart when we first turned onto the driveway. let me tell you, though: it’s been the most horrendous real estate transaction i’ve ever been [...]

Jan

7

choosing straws

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yesterday’s plan is history. too gimmicky, trying too hard to be clever i realized in the magical dark early hours this morning when it gelled: what i want is a way to commemorate days, not just chronicle them.
a most important prerequisite, of course, is that there there be days worthy of commemoration . . [...]

Jan

6

dancing through the days

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1.1: new. new beginning. new chapter. new start.
long ago i began to start my new years on 9.1. as an educator and mother of school-age children, it just made sense. even when the school calendars began creeping up into august, i held firm to 9.1.
i gave up on resolutions long, long ago because regardless of [...]

Dec

25

the power to be still

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i go to church that one night of the year because i love the feeling that envelopes me when we close with “silent night” by candlelight. “silent night” is such a loaded song for me. it was daddy’s favorite christmas carol – and as a rule, daddy didn’t like anything about christmas – which was [...]

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