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MORE NEWS OF MY WORLD: PLACES, BOOKS, CIVIC DUTY, AND CHARLIE
Question of the day: Books may furnish a room, but can they capture a sense of a place? I am 4 years new to Seattle and still don’t know what makes it what it is, except for Charlie and the … Continue reading
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RESURRECTION
RESURRECTION OF MY LAST BLOG POST For reasons unknown, my last blog post vanished. I mean poof! It was gone. “Error 403” or “Error 404”’was all I got. No trash, no delete, no “sysop [Charlie] forgot,” nothing. I figured, like … 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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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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COVID TIDINGS, CONT’D, AGAIN
TODAY’S JOYS I love the idea of “graffiti-ed graffiti,” the public adding to public art and making the art better, like scientists doing great work by “standing on the shoulders of giants” who came before them. But what happens when the … Continue reading
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COVID DAYS: EVEN NOW, MANY THANKS
O HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY! Most significantly, I am thankful for the half of the voters who gave us a generous future and for the other half who, but for a few, didn’t try to kill our democracy. I am hugely … Continue reading
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COVID 5: DAY BRIGHTENERS
It’s a dark, very dark day… Charlie says the apocalypse is upon us; the viral and wildfire smokey particulates are winning. Disaster Trump lurks. And wonderful RBG dies. I call it the big unpleasantness, because I am his mother. … Continue reading
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COVID 19 NOTES 4, MORE DAY BRIGHTENERS
We were quarantined again. Fortunately, Day Brighteners were not. These are some of my favorites. Forever lattes! Charlie has a new phone which means that, with the Starbucks’ mobile app he can now upload, he can always pick-up lattes, even … Continue reading
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COVID19 NOTES 2, PLUS
AVOIDING THE VIRAL CONTAGION LIFESTYLE NOTES: We of the poetry group met monthly to have fun with favorite poems. My choices always seemed to be better with a change or two. For instance, Emily Dickinson’s poem “To Make a Prairie” … Continue reading
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COVID19 NOTES 1, PLUS
We are one with “social distancing” and “shelter in place”, with boxed meals set outside the door, Charlie’s workshop masks at the ready, and my 2′ poker still good for pushing buttons and better than anything else for keeping people … Continue reading
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