Stop, Time
There is a time in every parent’s life, when you can’t fix much of anything anymore for your offspring. Not because they are difficult, or …
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Another last minute
“There is always time for another last minute” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather It wasn’t the best news, but we aren’t giving up. And it never …
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BLESTe BE Ye MAN Yt SPARES THES STONES
I love graveyards. Cemeteries. Boneyards. Cities of the Dead. They are quiet. There is a story for every stone or monument. You can visit for …
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Not this or that, somewhere in between
Every time I think I’m going to give up with this long long long standing blog, I come back. This is a long one, hold …
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So the Darkness Shall Be the Light
The Winter Solstice is one of my most thoughtful times. I suppose because I spent so much time with darkness. That sounds terribly dramatic–and it was until I found a way to live with it.
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Warming, as if in Spring
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
~R. D. Laing
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That’s the way it goes, it goes that way
But this is the way it goes….work, clean,Bean,cats,netflix, sleep.
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A Gift from the Universe
I was given one today. As we try to/prepare to/hope to move to Oregon (when this house sells) I’ve had things on my mind that …
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Can’t talk about it
Sometimes you just let someone else’s music speak for you. (Thank you Abney Park) Why do the things we love Torture us more …
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PushMe PullYou
And so we may be here for another ..year? More? The start to the process didn’t go well so we are looking at all our …
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A Moment as her Mother
I picked Em up from school yesterday and as usual, we talked about her day. It’s tough to concentrate when she doesn’t feel well, but …
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
It has been a long winter. A very long winter. There have been actual feet of snow. There have been too many inches of ice. …
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Protected: Strike That, Reverse it
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A is for Ailurophile : The Story of Buzzy the Persian Buffalo
Hello I’m Jyllian and I’m a cataholic–or more properly an Ailurophile. I’ve loved cats for as long as I can remember. I like dogs too, …
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. Fran Leibowitz
Day 2: Thursday, March 15, 2012 Prompt A: When did you realise you were a grown up? What did this mean for you? Shock to the …
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli
This was a long day. Poor kidlet is/better be was– being bullied at school–it freaks me out that this could be the same song …
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I was thinking of how you broke my heart
We took a walk. The things you told me were like the things I told you. But then that gift and truth …
