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    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
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    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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June 3, 2007

heaven is beyond my hopes…so let me stroll through the bright hours
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heaven is beyond my hopes…so let me stroll through the bright hours


lamb’s ear and rock, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Picture: a small cluster of lamb’s ear leaves adjacent to a rough grey rock. [Note: The lamb’s ear was a gift from a woman in Cambria–a few years ago our family was walking to the Tea Cozy for a cuppa when we passed the most charming all-purple cottage. The owner was in her yard gardening and we struck up a conversation and she generously offered a cluster of plants to add to our own garden. :) }

One of my favorite birthday gifts this year included this quotation on the card:
“Ah, how short a time it is that we are here! Why then not set our hearts at rest, ceasing to trouble whether we remain or go? What boots it to wear out the soul with anxious thoughts? I want not wealth; I want not power: heaven is beyond my hopes. Then let me stroll through the bright hours as they pass, in my garden among my flowers, or I will mount the hill and sing my song, or weave my verse beside the limpid brook. Thus will I work out my allotted span, content with the appointments of Fate, my spirit free from care.”
~Giles, “Chinese Literature”

June 3, 2007
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practically perfect

Last night, on a bit of a whim, we all went to the local dollar theater and watched “Miss Potter.” I’m so glad that we did! What a charming biopic about author and artist Beatrix Potter.

Some things that particularly resonated with me:

-Her unabashed love of nature!

-Buying a quaint working farm in the Lake District! Yes!

-Ewan McGregor as her dashing publisher/boyfriend/fiance. His gorgeous crooning in her ear as he takes Beatrix in his arms for a private dance. Okay, like I was about to pass out at that very moment because I couldn’t believe how irresistibly charming he was! Wow! And her childhood boyfriend-turned-husband was awfully good eye candy, too!

-Her Hilltop Farm garden (pictured above). What a gorgeous rambly-looking space. If I lived in a more verdant clime, I would aspire to a similar garden layout myself!

-Beatrix’s watercolor paintings. Feeling inspired to break open my own (unused for several years) watercolor set even as I imagine how fun it would be to set up an easel in my garden plot on some upcoming afternoon. :)

-The Isle of Man was the backdrop for part of the film. I just can’t wait to get myself back to that place again someday (will it be as good as I remember it from seven years ago? I’m guessing it may even be better this next time??).

After the movie we went to a nearby French bakery and bought some bread pudding and a strawberry mousse dessert to take home and share around our big brown table (not to fear, dear readers, our table still remains even after our recent household reorganization project). What a practically perfect Friday evening with the people that I love most in this world. :)

June 3, 2007
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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