Tag: living
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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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.
more
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October 20, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
Each of us has milestones in our lives by which we measure how far we've come. Certainly 18 and 21 are big ones, 40 and 50 seem to give people cause to reflect. For me, 39 has loomed large in . . . more
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August 17, 2008 11:38 PM EDT --
Our horses have new neighbors. The pasture where Favorito lived up until this spring has been rented out to someone with mules and a horse (he's now moved to a new area up top).
Today I finally . . . more
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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 . . . more
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December 22, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
Today Deb brought home my Christmas present.
His name is Gaucho.
She walked in the house today and asked me to go out and help her bring something in from the car. I knew she had gone to buy . . . more
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August 09, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
...Arkansas style
The kids had a blast down at the pasture today. I took a bunch of photos of them climbing on the fence. This one stood out because of the odd positions of the girls - . . . more
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March 19, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
(Handsome fella, don't you think?)
Today is my father's . . . more
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April 05, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
The bench sits alone.
The young lovers who met there
have aged,
trading in park time for porch-sitting.
The bench remembers
how they used to come walking,
hand-in-hand out of the woods,
each step light . . . more
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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, . . . more
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December 24, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
Now that we've found a name that sticks I've updated this from Gaucho to Bogart.
Pal is a cat. He is not the brightest cat I've ever met. In fact, there are times that we wonder . . . more
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November 29, 2006 02:53 PM EST --
Not that we needed any more animals in our lives - I mean, you would think that 2 dogs, 7 cats and 4 horses would be enough, but this little guy has managed to wriggle his way into the fold. He will probably . . . more
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February 11, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
He was 17 when he enlisted, so eager to serve his country that he had his father sign him into the army. It was 1967, and there was no doubt that he would be shipped off to Vietnam. . . . more
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September 23, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
Today, I awoke to the news that Marcel Marceau, the legendary mime, had passed away at the age of 84. Reading that headline instantly transported me to an evening in my life that . . . more
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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 . . . more
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December 03, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
It's all about choice.
There will always be stairs we need to climb that we know not where they lead.
The roads we must travel are the same . . . more
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