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cowboy ghosts
I am pretty sure that we saw a ghost today. We went on a hike up to Boney Mountain in the Santa Monica / Pt. Mugu Mountains. It is just stunning with waterfalls, vistas, wildflowers - hard to get to and one more good place to clear your head. Its is also Chumash Indian land and supposedly where they went to do their shamanistic rituals and sent ( Read more... ) -
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
I picked this up at a thrift store and am so glad I did. I just closed it and want to sit still and let the characters stay with me a while longer. Joody Two Sun, Even Grade, Valuable Korner, Joleb....Canaan and Grace..and of course, the South ( Read more... ) -
Saturday morning
My former father-in-law passed on Thursday. He was 84 and had suffered from Dementia - alcohol induced - for many years. I spoke with my former mother-in-law whom I love very much, at great length on Thursday night ( Read more... ) -
Grateful
A friend of mine has challenged a group of us to email around 3 things we are grateful for every day - kind of a sanity check in these strange times. This dispatch came through today ( Read more... ) -
Mishe Mokwa trail
Best. Hike. Ever.
Let me quote John Muir:
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
did me some major good.
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My Rocky Moment
woke up with a migraine at 6 - too an imitrex. got up at 8 determined to do our hike at Corral Canyon ( Read more... ) -
great song
sometimes you get lucky and turn on the radio and hear something amazing -
Kasey Chambers - Bluebird.
My tastes are eclectic and all over the map, but on a rainy day off when i am puttering, a little sweet, sad country tune does me fine. -
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Book #2 ( Read more... ) -
sunday morning thoughts
I have been in bed all morning with coffee and 'Fledgling' by Octavia Butler. I alternate reading and listening/watching the rains. I love the rain in Southern Cali. we need it so badly and we are on day 4 now. The sky has best cloud show ( Read more... )
