Navel Gazing
I keep waking up with a song lyric in my head – “where do we go from here, now that all of the —” but I don’t remember what THE is. Now that all of the somethings are something else? Now that all of the children are….? Now that all of the yarn balls have [...]
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This is one of those good news/bad news things. Which do you want first? I love the answer my friend Susan gave us when we asked her this last night (oh my lawd, was that just last night? It feels like a million years ago…) – she said she wanted the bad news first because [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about noise lately. Part of this is because the yarn store is in between two restaurants who get deliveries multiple times a day by large diesel trucks that are left running during unloading – talk about your loud white noise! – and partly because of the construction that’s going on [...]
With your cooler temps, your beautiful weather, your blooming flowers… and now you’ve shriveled up and turned into a brutally hot May. I’m glad I enjoyed you while you were here. I had real plans to finish a ton of things in April, and while those didn’t pan out I still had a great month [...]
(Originally posted January 18, 2007) I didn’t want to walk this morning. I wound up walking, just only for about 40 minutes, tops. I tried to tell myself that it was because I’d overslept (by ten minutes). I tried to tell myself that it was because it looked like it might rain. I tried to [...]
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So, I took a few days off from work – two on either side of my usual day off, making it a FIVE DAY WEEKEND, YO! And I may have mentioned that but didn’t really want to make a big deal of it – I hate, hate, hate the word “staycation”, and didn’t want to [...]
(Originally posted June 19, 2005) I don’t really remember the first person I lost. I think it was either Aunt Nellie or Aunt Mildred, gone when I was young. Less than 10, I think. Too young to really get what death meant, or how heavy it could hit you. Next would probably be my grandfather, [...]
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Anyone? Anyone get the song reference? :crickets: OK… moving on. You know what? (“turkeys don’t trot. you know why? they never did try!” THANK YOU PAPA. You’ve been dead for 25 years and I still can’t get that annoying phrase out of my head.) ANYWAY. I just wrote about a two-page bitchery on my least [...]
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I have been, as the song goes, one poor correspondent and too too hard to find; but it doesn’t mean you ain’t been on my mind. I wish you could walk with me in the mornings. I’d like to show you my Gainesville, tell you about the Gainesville that exists in my head. Have I [...]
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Yesterday on my drive to work, about five houses down from me, I thought I saw a burned-out firefighters coat in the yard of a house. “That can’t be what I saw,” I thought (glancing at the house as I drove past), “that house is fine except for being a burned out shell.” Errr? I [...]
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