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New Songs

It would be a crime not to share new tunes and new artists. Why hoard the joy, I say? Right now, I’m listening to Dear Companion by Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore.  Very mellow.  Perfect accompaniment music, for anything you’re doing. Here’s their “Something, Somewhere, Sometime.” Another beautiful, winsome voice is Catherine MacLellan’s.  I’m […]

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Circle of Life

In the last week, our two 9-month-old beagles, George (for Curious George) and Stuart (for Stuart Little), have brought home two turkey claws, a bushy squirrel tail, and a dead rabbit.  I don’t think they have the speed or tenacity to catch these animals.  They’re simply picking up winter detritus and having a little fun […]

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Spring

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, these sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze. –D.H. Lawrence, from “The Enkindled Spring” [Post image: Cherry Blossoms by meelin on stock.xchng]

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Love Letters

What a delightful book.  At 89 pages, it’s a quick read–funny and wise and so true. Corrigan wrote Lift as a love letter to her two girls, Georgia and Claire.  She opens her “letter” on the night before they both start middle school, bemoaning the fact that everything will change and they won’t recognize this […]

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Song for the Day

Don’t ask me what it means.  I just like it. Kinda moody, dark, and somber, but not the kind of song that makes you feel depressed.  It’s like Ryan goes on a walk with you, and you casually ask him to sing you a song, and he does, all the while taking slow drags on […]

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