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time goes by

February 3, 2012

…reminding me of the lovely scene in one of my favorite movies, Pane e tulipani. What action must I take when the last petal falls?

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winter sunlight

January 26, 2012

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lovely bookstore, lovely story

January 20, 2012

Geez, I was getting weepy over this. Have you ever seen such a beautiful location for a bookstore?

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The Joy of Books

January 12, 2012

Found the above on this delightful site with the silly name sent to me by my sister-in-law (thank you!). The photos on the site make me want to pound the table and say, with Sally, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” (I heart bookshelves.)

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happy holidays

December 31, 2011

are spent like this:

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what a difference a day makes

December 23, 2011

On the first day of winter in New Hampshire, the ferns, though flattened, were green, the moss was bright emerald green, the mountain laurel was green, and this lovely ground cover was green, green, green:

On the second day of winter, my children’s dream of a white Christmas may be coming true.

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In Memoriam

December 19, 2011

So many friends and family members have experienced the death of someone near to them in this past year, and are still in the first year of mourning. Marge Piercy’s poem “Kaddish,” an interpretation of the Kaddish spoken by Jewish mourners during the first year after the death of a close family member, also seems [...]

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open winter

December 18, 2011

There’s this to say for it: we keep getting to walk in the woods.

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truth is where you find it

December 15, 2011

I’ve been meaning to post this since late summer, when I went not into the dark mysterious den of a fortune teller swathed in scarves and jewelry, but into a candy store. Wondering, as one does from time to time, what life held in store for me, I purchased a package of Fortune Gum, seven [...]

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Joan Bauer Girl Power

December 11, 2011

Recently I read in quick succession three books by Joan Bauer handed to me by my daughter as she finished them—Hope Was Here, Rules of the Road and Best Foot Forward. While these books are not of the era of books I like to promote, being of this century, they are worthy of note.
When I [...]

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