"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
- William Allen White
Courtney’s Dahlias
Not only did she marry my son 15 years ago, but she also plants more dahlias every spring.
She is a smart woman.
sunday morning at the feeder
“There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business”
― Grant Hutchison
the last few days I have lived with that lump in my throat
you know the one . . .
bouncing between melancholy sadness and acute gratitude for all that fills my life,
I allow all of it to rise to the surface and have its say,
trying not to focus too hard on the why of it all . . .
for regret and hindsight are robbers of joy and wisdom,
and I see all to clearly who the winners here need to be
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dog love
sitting on the couch wondering when I am going to start dinner. . .
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come closer
Slow it down more, come closer still. A dot appears, like a flesh-flake. It swells like a balloon; it moves, circles, slows, and vanishes. This is your life.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
It is almost dark before I head outside to notice the world around me. I scold myself for wasting the day doing things I knew I did not want to do.
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Thursday
It's time to show that we are more than meets the eye.
- Orion Pax: Transformer
He comes to play on Thursday and there is a huge battle. I am not sure who won in the end for they were all still standing when he left. What I do know for sure is that his imagination has no boundaries, for he has never seen a Transformer cartoon or a book. (He does however know just about everything there is to know about dinosaurs.) At one point the dinosaurs were on the ground and the knights had retreated back into the castle, but those tiny transformers . . . they were still standing strong.
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