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A walk by the bay
Just over the Golden Gate bridge, in Marin, is a lovely setting that we used to call Fort Baker. We took a walk down there last weekend and discovered that about a year ago, the decommissioned fort had...
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The intermingling of ghosts
Something's been bothering me about Facebook, and I think I've finally put my finger on it. It's the ghosts, and how they are rubbing up against each other.I think my life history is somewhat typical...
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Virtual travel leads to actual trip
I'd like to get this blog going again - this year, Facebook took over my time & attention, and although I do love reading about friends new and old, somehow knowing WHO is reading my updates makes...
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Sunday Studio and Art
Our 2010 resolution is to create more art. Carving out a time for this is the essential thing. It's not that we don't have the time - we just don't have the habit. So if we make a timeslot, then it's...
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Ambrosia
This morning, the coffee was named "Ambrosia". I had to look up the definition, out of curiosity for such a Greek-sounding word. Definitions of ambrosial * extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and...
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Excepts from a 1977 journal
1. Memories. That first bright night stepping off the bus, walking excitedly in the tracks, deep snow lightly dusting our noses. Streetlamp beams burning with the whiteness falling falling. The low sky...
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Aerogramme
These days, if I am actually mailing a letter through the post, I make an educated guess about the weight of it and stick an extra stamp on or two for good measure. After all, stamps cost less than a...
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There seems to be a problem
There seems to be a problem. It's a disconnect. Lyrics will not register in my brain. Notes, yes. Melodies, sometimes. Accompaniment, yes. Feelings swirl amid the notes and ricochet off the time...
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Two Points for writing
Shall I continue this experiment, or leave it be with two points for writing just one day in the month of May? Two measly points - it doesn't seem like much... it seems connected with basketball, but...
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Going downtown
We collected our allowance and walked downtown. Past the stone house that was the oldest house in town - the old land office. Past the house where my old teacher lived. All the way to our church -...
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A bunch of things
I can't be bothered with daily postings, or even monthly ones, I guess. NaBloPoMo is nagging me though, so I'll try to answer a few of their prompts.One: Something You Hate About YourselfI am really...
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Citrus season
We have a navel orange tree and a lemon tree in our backyard. The lemons are "Portugese Lemons", or so we've been told. They are thick-skinned and quite sweet, as lemons go. They look a bit like Meyer...
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Dreaming
Yesterday was Martin Luther King's birthday, and I saw many references here and there to the famous "I Have A Dream" speech. It made me think about dreaming, and what how dreams hold such power for...
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Hokitika, New Zealand
I once spent an afternoon in Hokitika, New Zealand, and I can't seem to get this place out of my head. It's a little community of about 3,000 people, located on the west coast of the south island. The...
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Mosaics
My vision is poor. I am severly nearsighted and, without lenses, see the world as a cottony mass of color and smudged patterns. Perhaps this is why mosaics appeal to me. When I see an image that has...
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Be obstreperous!
This motto was espoused by our dear friend Charlie Halloran, and I'm not sure where he picked it up. But it is fine advice, and I'm glad I inherited it from him. It means "noisily and stubbornly...
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Finding a place
I'm from a very, very small town in a cold, cloudy part of Western New York State. The only gay person I knew of, growing up in the 60s, was the developmentally disabled gentleman who hung out downtown...
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Anyone Can Sing
Anyone Can SingAnyone can sing. You just open your mouth,and give shape to a sound. Anyone can sing.What is harder, is to proclaim the soul,to initiate a wild and necessary deepening:to give the voice...
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30 images
Day 1 - A picture of yourself.Day 2 - A picture of you and a person you used to be close with.Day 3 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show. Portlandia - a new favorite.Day 4 - A picture of...
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Devastating
The photos and stories and videos from New Zealand, and now Japan, are heart-stopping. Perhaps we live in a time when the earth has had enough of us. She shudders and knocks some of us off her crust....
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I found this short story between some pages of a dream journal that I kept in 1981. I had typed this story. On a typewriter. Talk about time travel!At the signal of the latch clicking and a breeze...
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Winter solstice
Imagine if all of the countries and peoples of the world today could believe in one common theme - that the days get shorter, and then, just when you can't imagine it, they start to lengthen again....
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