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NEWS
It’s a wonderful day in Tenants Harbor: soft sun, quiet breeze, cooing mourning dove (I think) and a harbor full of dinghies to welcome back lobstermen later in the day. Fig. #33. (Picture from Fig. #26 repeated by accident, but … Continue reading
SPIES IN THE HARBOR?
More fear-dredging from Homeland Security this last week. Now the potential evil-doers are unobserved coastal boaters at rest in harbors. So Tenants Harbor boaters are to watch their water-borne neighbors and be alert for — who knows what? This is … Continue reading
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THOUGHTS, AS PROMISED
THOUGHTS I have a thought. ”Oh no,’ says Charlie THINKING IS DOING I was reading Ron Padgett’s poem, Think and Do, which begins, ‘I always have to be doing something, accomplishing something, fixing something, going somewhere, feeling purposeful, useful, competent—even … Continue reading
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NEWS FROM MY WORLD, amended
UPDATE AND REWRITE… This post is later than late because WordPress changed itself, so I sent it out on email to my 4 faithful readers, but Charlie fixed this latest catastrophe, as he … Continue reading
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CIVIC DUTIES
VERY BAD NEWS The ding-dongs are at it again, banning books they don’t like and may never have read. Stephen King brings it home with a great review of Celeste Ng’s new dystopian novel, “ Our Missing Hearts,” in which, … Continue reading
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MIND EXERCISES AMONG THE FLOWERS
Our monthly fitness charge was to frolic among a chart of flowers by tallying our week’s exercise, self-assessing the results and assigning our tokens to “appropriate” flowers. To the Physical Exercises suggested, e.g. walking, climbing stairs, I suggested including Mind … Continue reading
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MORE FROM THE PRE-POST PANDEMIC
I intended for this post to be posted several weeks ago, but things kept cropping up. For example, I had the introductory sentence, which connected the disparate ideas. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, grateful, generous, and thinking about things. … Continue reading
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HELP!
No Tenants Harbor arrival date set yet, but I remain hopeful. I asked Scott Hodgkins to post a HELP WANTED notice on the bulletin boards in both the Town Office and the Post Office. Scott tonied it up a bit, … Continue reading
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ROSELEDGE BOOKS NEWS
An Almost-Roseledge-Books-Regular (a potential RBRegular who has only been once) called from the airport to say she is delayed and reading Sarah Orne Jewett’s story maybe set in Tenans Harbor, Country of the Pointed Firs, and it is perfect. Sounds … Continue reading
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FACT-CHECKING
Richard III (1452-1485) is alive again in the public mind! This is no small feat for someone dead these 500+ years. The newsworthy note is that Richard III’s bones have probably been found which means that two questions about him … Continue reading
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