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Winter Solstice — Limitations
Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb, bereaved mother & head cook, Paul Giametti as Paul Hunham, classics teacher, and Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully, student left at the Barton [Deerfield] Academy...
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Recovering — state of home library
Bookcase bought for enclosed porch: DVDs, notes on TV and theater movies, books on films, sequels, and translations (mostly of Austen & Trollope, section just by Andrew Davies) Dear friends and...
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It’s nearly 6 months since my stroke & midsummer
A thrush in the syringa sings ‘Hunger ruffles my wings, fear, lust, familiar things. Death thrusts hard. My sons by hawk’s beak, by stones, trusting weak wings, by cat and weasel, die. Thunder...
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Brief Update: I won’t be going away after all
My stationary indoor bike Friends and readers, I am relieved because I am not yet up to it. I cannot as yet walk outside with my rollaton that easily. So I would not be able to take public...
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Gus Walz and the meaning of the term Non-verbal Learning Disorder
Tim Walz, now campaigning to be Vice-president, Gwen Walz his wife, and their two children, Hope (24) and Gus (19) Dear friends, I usually reserve all commentary which includes direct references to...
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Autumn — A good life on line, can it be done?
Front part of my garden — standing close to photograph — muted nature of colors are part of beauty. Red berry bush — standing to the side of house– recalls to my mind Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
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Two new family members: Fiona & Elinor, How it all came together these last...
Fiona (Outlander, from Fion/Finn, means ash-blonde, white) Elinor aka Ellie-cat (Austen, as in Dashwood), favorite heroine Born early 8/2024. Thou mett’st with things dying [beloved Ian & Clary],...
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Ellen at 78
Me, age 33; Jim, age 31; Laura in stroller, age 2; my father in his early 60s; my mother taking the photo. Llyr, 10 probably romping near by — why she’s not in the picture If 77’s a time to be in...
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Let us be of good heart
As all know, who read this autobiographical blog regularly, I spend much of my life reading & writing Dear friends and readers, So we come to the end of another year, which has been for me an...
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A night out after holiday week, Kaiser’s utter indifference & this year’s...
The restored Duke’s Children Dear friends and readersm Last night I enjoyed a rare treat: I went out to dinner with an old friend. I almost chickened out; luckily I texted to the wrong place....
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