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For my friends who are under snow this weekend, here’s a view of cherry blossoms at the Huntington’s Japanese garden last Saturday. The weather has been so sublime here this weekend, that I’ve spent a good deal of my time out on the water. How about you, what are you up to this weekend?
Just got recruited by US amputee soccer team that's slated to play its first match in Haiti. #wowjustwow #lifeofanamputee #ineededthattoday # The Dutch Baby is still impressive & tasty, even if I'm missing the requisite skillet http://brizzly.com/pic/45HP # Why is it that the dumb little things–like reaching for a skillet that's no longer in the [...]
A whole slew of friends came over last weekend to help me “break in” my new couch. If you haven’t yet made it over, I hope you’ll consider dropping by–it’s a very comfy place to sit with a cup of tea and solve the problems of the universe. :) PS: Aren’t my friends just lovely?
Toby-cat was a gift from my garden. A stray that I’d seen but couldn’t catch. I told a friend that I’d seen a wee kitten haunting my plot, and within a few days this friend brought a clawful unhappy bundle to my front porch: I remember Toby well — from the moment when she was [...]
This evening our vet put our TobyJoy to sleep, after her seizures had escalated to the point where further control with medication seemed unlikely. Her seizures started again a few days ago–small ones at first, then morphing into body-wracking shakes that contorted her small frame backwards and forwards. Last night when Toby’s seizures began to [...]
A friend sent over this link, letting me know how the words of this song apply to my situation in many ways. I love it for numerous reasons, although it did make me desperately hungry for the ocean as I’m sitting in my office today…(oh, and reminded me how much I need to add some [...]
Sigh. No new prosthetic socket today–needs moar testing. Probably another week. #lifeofanamputee :( # RT @dancohen: Zombie lit has officially jumped the shark with _Theories of International Politics and Zombies_ http://bit.ly/fw03pn # Steampunk prosthetic http://bit.ly/hhNlhN # RT @kfitz: New post: Does Tenure Undermine Academic Freedom? http://bit.ly/gaM7fX [love the idea of reversing tenure clock] # RT [...]
An excerpt from “Daisies” by Mary Oliver: …What do I know. But this: it is heaven itself to take what is given, to see what is plain; what the sun lights up willingly; for example–I think this as I reach down, not to pick but merely to touch– the suitability of the field for the [...]
If all goes well, today I’ll be getting a new socket for my prosthetic leg. This has been (too) long in coming, mostly because I’ve been traveling or living away from home for the past 6 months. Getting a new socket involves a series of ‘test socket’ fittings and numerous small adjustments to get the [...]
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time, and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world, she began to stand around the gate and expect things…She knew that God tore down the old world every morning and built a new one at sun-up. [...]
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb The picture above is a close-up of the lime tree that’s blooming on my porch right now. I wish I could send the smell along with the image–it’s divine. :)
I spent time with two different close friends yesterday and both said something similar to me about my life since separating from John. Both affirmed how much good has happened for me since then. One even went as far as to say that “only good has come of your splitting.” I don’t know if I’d [...]
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