Today at the vet clinic I took a call from a woman who felt it was time to put her 15-year-old dog down.  She said he was whimpering, and not doing very well. I found an emergency slot for her at the end of the day, and told her to come in at that...
Topics: I'm rambling again, Just thinking, life, Uncategorized

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It seems I have an issue with organized faith. I hadn’t noticed it until I moved to Illinois. At the end of last summer, I was in an appalling state of mind and being, and I knew once I left Florida, I wanted to dedicate myself more earnestly to a..
Topics: faith, Just thinking, religion

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isn’t it beautiful to know that the moon I [we] [you and me] [they] walked beneath and absorbed tonight is the same one that Buddha, Shakespeare, Darwin, Charlie Parker, Apollinaire, Cartier-Bresson gazed upon in their lifetimes?the same, but...
Topics: Uncategorized

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I just finished a splendid book called The Madman and the Professor. It’s about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and two people, in particular, who were involved.  It took seventy years for the dictionary to come to completion, and the.
Topics: Uncategorized

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Who knew frying food was such an art form? I certainly didn’t. I’ve been off for the past few days and experimenting in the kitchen. Usually I avoid this room like the plague, but since we’re trying to sit on our purse strings as much...
Topics: Uncategorized

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