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Life at Leisure: Carol; March 29, 1955 - March 31, 2009
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THOUSANDS OF FREE BLOGGER TEMPLATES �. Life Isn't about waiting for The storm to pass, It's about learning to dance In the rain. Wednesday, April 01, 2009. Carol; March 29, 1955 - March 31, 2009. Carol was a cousin, a mentor and a friend. She was bubbly and always had some comic comeback to everything anyone would say. I will miss her, but I'm praying that her pain has left and she's sitting at God's knee making him laugh until he cries. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The M...
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Sans le Nom: The Word of the Day
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Saturday, December 14, 2013. The Word of the Day. Today is my birthday. I turn 46 officially at 11:04 pm, which is uncharacteristic because that's way past my bedtime. Last year I made a Facebook goof and threw a lavish party. This year I'm spending a little less. My present to myself is this. A chance to sit down in a cafe on President Clinton Avenue and write for myself. I'll say, "Mom, I think I was born on a full stomach.". And I'll cry a little bit as she tells me she loves me and hangs up the phone.
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Sans le Nom: Beautiful Dragons
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. The perception of what is small is the secret of clear. Sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is the secret. Of strength. - Lao Tzu. When I was very young, my mom read to me every night, and when I started first grade, she taught me to read. In essence, she gave me the gifts of life and literacy, yet while I have certainly enjoyed the former to its fullest (thanks, Mom! I'm a little slow sometimes. And Hansel and Gretel were arrested for burglary and capital mur...
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Sans le Nom: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Dead in D.C. It's a little-known fact (or maybe a well-known one) that a lot of people die on the toilet. Elvis Presley being, possibly, one of the most famous examples. I know this because I am a dry cleaner's daughter and was intrigued by an article in the New Yorker. At any rate, I went to Washington, D.C. for a conference on Tuesday. What could it be? Yeah, flights cancelled. And then I sat back on the cool marble floor (the hotel is next door to the White House, what do y...
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Sans le Nom: Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake. Of course, that was the whole point of the exercise: be uncomfortable until you find a place of comfort with the group you will spend this time with, recognize each as a person and not as somehow a representative of a color or a belief or a generation or a place. So my friend told me a story. But then she had to transport the finished cake back to the un-airconditioned farmhouse over several miles of dirt road. So from...
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Sans le Nom: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Going out of Business. F-Bomb Alert: My mom should not read this post (she will anyway). My teaching career is officially, finally, and irrevocably over. After 19 years in the biz, I've had enough. A few months ago, a friend of mine said, "You know, there are problems at every job; I just need a different set of problems." And I guess I kind of took her statement into my own heart. I didn't actually sign up for a teaching career. Like most things in my life, it fell into my...
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lap pool | LONGLEAF STORIES
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Longleaf Bar and Grill. Full circle in the hundred acre wood. My August Survival Kit. August 2, 2015. Buck and I were traumatized, distracted and busy last summer and fall, most of it spent traveling back and forth between home and Mayo Clinic. As a result, we didn’t even stick a toe into our sweet little lap pool. It’s like a regular swimming pool, only narrower, and with a maximum depth of five and …. Welcome to the piney woods on the Gulf coast of Florida. It’s just me and my lucky rock. Denny Coates ...
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Nature | LONGLEAF STORIES
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Longleaf Bar and Grill. Full circle in the hundred acre wood. Connect, weave yourself into the natural world. Lessons from the green nourish and change us (for the better). Study the intricacies of lichen and web. Put down a taproot or become an air plant. Observe, mind open and eyes wide. Breathe. Photos and notes from Longleaf Preserve are here, too. Morning Light on Old Live Oak at the Gate. October 16, 2016. Full Moon Fringed by Longleaf Bough. October 16, 2016. October 13, 2016. September 30, 2016.
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