Our third child, second daughter, my X Factor. She is three years and five days younger than the oldest, When she is riding high her energy is magical, outward, out of this world, overdrive, so alive, certain of her way, a little headstrong, my way or the highway she sorta says with a look, So …
These Writings
These writings, scribbled down in the small hours, and often in between, when the spark lights, The light goes on and I write it down, capture quickly, for me, for you, for them, These writings represent my life, experiences oft mundane, no disdain, just the tale, the trail I’m on, Captured, shared, in these writings, …
Lesson Learned
Recent lesson, a bit humorous to me, but also timeless instruction, captured here in a photo, Cutting material for a project last week, there were two parts that mirrored each other. The piece in the top was the left over from the first half of the job, the bottom from the second half, I estimated …
Toast!
Toast, that simple, reliable, food staple. So many breads, so many spreads, so many options for toast. Got a new toaster after about twenty years use n the last one, So today (and everyday!), Celebrating toast ~ more from Wikipedia below ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(food)?wprov=sfti1#Consumption
Through-Line: Clunky Collaboration
Funny thing, I stumbled upon an expected through-line recently. Though unsettling for me, I hope it perhaps stirs me to find nsight into how to be more successful in relationship. Worked with each of these folks over longer periods of time; some, nearly a lifetime. Would that I could understand better why I sometimes felt …
Rough Numbers
Write about your approach to budgeting. I use the baseline pay as one starter, and rough numbers of monthly expenses as the other, and make payments each month, a credit line covering the gaps, Rough numbers, need to know, hold them close enough to manage, but not so close you go crazy, Live within your …
Celebrating Ana!
Our first-born, fourteen years old today, where does the time go? She’s thoughtful and pretty smart, her humor makes me smile, She’s quietly finding her way in the world, maybe a little more mature than her years, Simply elegant and patient and inspiring, her creativity fills me with awe, and insistent on what she knows? …
Patriotism: It’s Complicated
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? It goes like this for me mostly, about the idea of “America”, the “Great Experiment of Democracy”, the ideals written into the US Constitution, the Rule of Law…for that I feel patriotism…and for the opportunities I’ve had by living here, most appreciative… For the leaders …
Navalny
One year since his death in a penal colony in the far north of Russia, This from the ever-inspiring voice of Scott Simon of NPR, his opinion taken from NPR.org, saved here too for my little corner of posterity, my little audience that might not be NPR peeps, BIG thanks, Scott Simon ~~~ ""It is …
My Take, Nikki Giovanni, Thank You
She just passed on, end of last year, had not heard of her prior that I could recall, my loss until now, Poet and activist from the 1960’s in America, forefront voice for African-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement, Leader with words and actions to give others voice too, expert with verse and children’s books …
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