Yesterday after work:  Feet where head usually rests looking at the bare trees against the blue sky.  Nice until the phone rang.

Radio transmission:  "it's snowing, j1, get up and look out the window!"

Guday   

Feelings in a bottle, sorry about that.  Unable to open it without breaking.  I cried when you left but not for the obvious reasons.  Life is hard sometimes.

guday

Too cold outside for much activity, dogs inside for the nights, they're grateful and precious.  I am grateful for the electric blanket, keep the heating bills down with lots of clothing and a chilly home.  Friday night, movie at Belcourt: Ballast.  A young black child who seems to have no one caring for him, the trouble he gets into, the things he ( Read more... )

Benjamin Button is the movie to see.  Life affirming, funny, but most assuredly excellent ( Read more... )

early to bed, thunderous fireworks at 12:01 woke me up to find I still had my little Christmas Tree beside the bed changing color, phone buzzing with text message of Happy New Year.  I went outside but heard gunshots so went back in, laid around reading Utne and fell back asleep.  Hobbes woke me at 5:36 yelling about something only cats know.  ( Read more... )

We have secrets and our needs to confess.  We may remember how, in childhood, adults were able at first to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the ( Read more... )

The Robin studied the Hawk to figure out how and why it lived the way it does.  This is the way I felt on the weekend trip.  I looked for Carthage, Edgar Evins, Buttermilk Road while she looked for the exit with Walmart and Costco.  It was hilarious watching this old friend show me her colors.  She did vote the same way I did but it wasn't due to ( Read more... )

At 3:00 in the morning I woke up to people shouting in the street in front of the house.  I rolled over and looked through the blinds to see two white vehicles sitting in the middle of the street, two people yelling at each other about going to the airport.  For a brief moment  I thought they were going to fight.  A small blue car pulled up and ( Read more... )

Lots to do, funeral, wedding, exercise, try not to eat carbs.  The wedding is costing me my whole savings account but I'm so happy about it I'm not sweating it much.  I'll work some overtime at the football games or get a second job.  I don't care about time, I'm solo, there is no one looking for me and I'm keeping it that way.  He proposed to me, ( Read more... )

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