Alright...after indulging myself all day, I got up some energy in the evening and TOTALLY scrubbed every inch of Willo's bathroom (ooh, me bloody knees, mate!) washed down bedroom walls, and scrubbed the carpet.  I was free to go to town because I didn't have to worry about cleanser smells making her feel ill...she's not here!  I'm usually just ( Read more... )

My daughter was born on December 6th 1980.  Of course she was fashionably late (her due date being November 19th ) making her entrance in Huntington Hospital, Long Island.  The thing is, if you ask me her birth date, I have to think for a minute so as not to say Dec. 8th instead.

The night of Dec. 8th I was on the phone with my brother in L.A., ( Read more... )

...about being culinarily-challenged...here's a pic I call "The Kettle Graveyard"...just some of the kettles I have done-in while forgetting I was making tea....


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A gentle morning in southern Puget Sound today.  The sun is just climbing over the ridge, gilding the broad brush strokes of clouds until they make my eyes tear in the light.  The treeline is silhouetted black on the sky and seagulls dance white in front.  The moisture hangs in diamond droplets from everything in the garden, catching and playing ( Read more... )

 
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Once upon a time of the Medicine Wheel, there was a young girl of a desert tribe.  She was afraid of death and, in holding onto her fear, her spirit became misplaced and she became ill.  None who loved her were able to help.

Now, at this time there was an old, old woman who lived by herself in a canyon, close to the pueblo.  She was held in great ( Read more... )

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 The mist is snaking through the trees like long white hair, tangled in the fingers of a lover.  There's a blush of pink against the silver of the sky just over the ridge and the small pewter-coloured clouds scud down the Sound.  All this deelish smoky silence...and a cuppa to warm me cockles.  Ooh, some clouds are becoming coral at the edges with ( Read more... )

I beg to differ...

I'm sorry I was unable to embed the youtube...but the next best thing.  A Counter-Culture hero....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DtpdXZi0M

 Just having the first cuppa of the day and greasing my gears.  My world is covered in rime this morning, looking sweetly sugar-glazed.  The sky is becoming lighter in spots as the marine mist shffles from over the water, inland.  The dolphin on the fountain has a lovely white head.  Must look for the pic of the fountain...I'll get back to that

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