Re: Happy Anniversary to Me!

July 04, 1942 Independence Day parade in New York. Taken by Life magazine photographer, Andreas Feninger. From Life’s on-line photo archives hosted by Google.
Let the bells ring out and the people cheer! June marks the two year anniversary of this blog. Can’t believe it myself. Time goes by so quickly. Frankly, I don’t know what [...]

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Re: Poetry Corner II

After watching a bunch of us, myself included, wobbling around in Tree Pose, I was inspired to pen the following. If you don’t know, Tree Pose is a yoga balance posture. You stand on one foot with the other leg raised and then lift your arms up. The theory is that by keeping your core [...]

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Re: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

I took off a week from work at the beginning of June specifically to get my plantings in. The growing season is so short here that if you don’t put your plants out immediately after June 1st you just needn’t bother. I’m pleased to report that I accomplished the following the during my mini-vacation:

Planted six [...]

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Re: Poetry Corner

I’m taking a hatha yoga class where the instructor encourages us to journal after each pose. I was hot, sweaty, and sprawled on the gym floor when I came face to face with an expired insect and was inspired to scrawl the following poem in my notebook ….
On the floor in yoga class—
a dead fly [...]

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