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Why is it so much harder to be alone in summertime?
Beatrice Potter — Mice at work threading the needle This morning I was thinking I find it much harder to be alone during the summer or hot months than the cold. I’m not sure why that is. Maybe the hot...
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Summer’s End
Emma Haworth — The Last Day of Summer Friends and readers, Of course the intense heat is not over: the last 3-4 days here in Virginia were and the next 3-4 promise to be, intensely hot by noon and...
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Old-fashioned diary entry
This is a place in Central Park, NYC, I know well: ancient rocks. I used to sit there. (Izzy put it on twitter from her trip to NYC these 6 days) Today nine years ago Jim died. The comfort of my...
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October’s end: Samhain (SAH-win), and remembering when we played in Love’s...
Margaryta Yermolayeva — Witchy Art Dear friends and readers, The hard beginning of October has been long over, and we’ve had a couple of beautiful weeks: fall used to be my favorite time of year. I...
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An epidemic of loneliness? w/coda of poems by Elizabeth Alexander and Marcus...
My new profile picture for face-book and twitter — a life apud libros — among books, of reading I met America at a neighborhood bar last night …. Marcus Amaker Dear friends and readers, An “epidemic...
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I on myself must try to live
My daughter, Laura, at the National Building Museum, earlier this week for there is no help for it. This is my 11th summer without him, the 5th since I can no longer drive at night. I can’t go far by...
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Izzy finishes Gorey’s Pomegranates; Clara Tornvall, The Autists: Women on the...
Gorey’s Pomegranates: I know it’s blurry and dark, but still invite all to find all the cats you can — there are many unexpected ones A Going Away Blog Dear friends and readers, As you can see, Izzy...
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“At 77, it is time to be in earnest …”
Me and Clarycat, spring 2013, photo taken by Jim Dear Friends and Readers, If I’m not mistaken, this was the hardest birthday I’ve had to get through since Jim died, 10 years ago — 2013, when I was...
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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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Izzy brings in 2025 with “Down by the River,” said to have been originally composed by Borislov Slavov, a Bulgarian composer of (among other kinds) music for video games Here are the lyrics: Lace your...
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I retire at long last — after 53 years
Or, my working life comes to an end, 1972-2025 Me the other day, taken by Izzy Dear friends, All the important events of my life, or turning points have occurred within me, or made very little splash...
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