Tag: life
member name: Tonia, who hugs trees G.
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March 25, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
If I walked
through burning sand
and rocky stone
barefoot and alone -
If I walked
through icy tundra
and winter storm
naked as my birth -
If I walked
through my pain
and did . . .
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October 18, 2007 08:50 PM EDT --
Perhaps some of you will remember that we put up a portable shelter for our mares earlier this summer. Maybe you will even recall how pleased we were to finally have provided shelter for them that would . . .
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March 31, 2008 08:01 PM EDT --
Today has been one of those days where my state of mind matched the heavy, stormy skies. It is no secret, I think, that we have been struggling financially for quite awhile now. With the addition of the . . .
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July 19, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
This week I walked past the age at which my mother died.
It feels as if my life just became my own.
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August 06, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
Today we had the young ones with us for the day. Lili (the 6 year old) returned this past Sunday from an extended trip to spend time with Mimi, her other grandmother. Ari (the 2 year old) had returned . . .
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January 10, 2008 09:17 PM EST --
My job and the shorter daylight has made it hard for me to get outside with my camera. Last night, I decided to pull out a box of rocks and shells that I've collected over the years and see what I . . .
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February 14, 2008 02:25 PM EST --
The kids just left after being with us for 12 days. The dogs have all settled down in the office with me and are now sleeping. All the activity probably was exhausting for them as well. Little Bogie has . . .
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June 26, 2008 01:42 AM EDT --
It was not until my mid 30's that I discovered I could cook. There were a few dishes that I would prepare, recipes that had come to me from my father, but I'd had enough disastrous experiences . . .
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October 15, 2008 08:58 PM EDT --
She died at 39. Hit by a car at night while walking home from visiting with her mother. It was winter in Australia and she was wearing a black pea coat and dark pants. It was at the crest of a hill and . . .
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January 28, 2009 05:09 PM EST --
It has been interesting here during the past 24 hours. I've learned that ice storms are very sneaky things. Just a gentle rain that freezes to everything and gradually builds up a coating of ice that . . .
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June 05, 2009 10:38 PM EDT --
We've had quite a time this past month with two of the horses foundering, and a sick cat. Anastacia, our strawberry blond, has made a full recovery and is back to her normal inquisitive self but Sonata . . .
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March 19, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
(Handsome fella, don't you think?)
Today is my father's . . .
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October 23, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
At the age of 19 I joined the Coast Guard. I ended up at a small boat station located in Boston's Outer Harbor. One of the tasks we all needed to learn was how to read a chart. There were only four . . .
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November 02, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
Restless, pacing, measuring out
concrete boundaries
that strain the seams of mortal peace.
Electric storms rage
within cranial confines,
where . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:09 PM EST --
The past week has been quite eventful. Deb's 5 year old granddaughter and her 2 year old sister have spent the week with us. Both kids picked up some kind of bug and were quite sick. It has made sense . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:59 AM EDT --
In 2004, I moved from Boston to Arkansas. I experienced quite a bit of culture shock as I transitioned from big city life to a more rural existance. I thought I had made great strides in acclimation but . . .
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November 07, 2007 01:36 PM EST --
My godmother and her husband who both live in Australia are on a road trip here in the US. They scheduled a two and a half day stop here in Arkansas which sadly came to end this morning when they . . .
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December 18, 2007 08:05 PM EST --
This is one of those days when I wish I had some small iota of musical talent. I would find a suitable slow, gut wrenching bluesy piece and just pour all this stagnant emotion out into the world. Unfortunately, . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:40 AM EDT --
It is a simple recipe, hand written on a recipe card that has browned with age. Titled “Oatmeal Cookies” from Grandma Conner, it contains the promise of memories from a childhood lived a lifetime . . .
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March 19, 2008 01:10 PM EDT --
There is a wonderful website that I discovered not long ago. It is called Pandora and is billed as a "music genome project". They provide streaming music that the listener can tailor to their . . .
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