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November 19, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
Yes again, this year frozen turkeys are again $.27 a pound at Safeway, and I have one thawing at this very minute that cost just under $5.00...
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Okay, I may . . .
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November 16, 2009 09:25 PM EST --
Holding each other’s gaze across the elegant restaurant table
they chat and eat, drink wine, feed tidbits to the grabby baby
Dinner for two may sometimes mean dinner for three
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November 16, 2009 07:44 PM EST --
Lights turned down low
jazz CD spinning round
fine porcelain and heavy silver
gleam in candlelight over
drape of soft linen tablecloth
quiet voices murmur over
Chinese takeout dinner
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November 04, 2009 02:22 AM EST --
People with wheat and gluten intolerances can't eat the kind of food they sell on planes, plus I'm too cheap to buy food at airports. This is what I'll be stuffing into my backpack:
1. Small container . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:37 AM EST --
I will be out of town for 10 days to visit family and attend a spiritual retreat. I won't be receiving e-mail during that time, so I'll do my best to catch up with you when I get back! Take care, and . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
Emerson's essay was first published in 1844. Many think that Walt Whitman fulfilled Emerson's call for an American poet in the 1800's, and that Robert Frost fulfilled in the 1900's...
Theologians . . .
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November 02, 2009 06:32 PM EST --
The Zeal of God (for justice) / Scivias
In this vision Hildegard sees two walls coming together with a fiery red head at the corner where the walls join
She tells us that the walls, which are . . .
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November 02, 2009 03:19 AM EST --
Me, pick up a brush? I haven't done artwork in over thirty years...
But I have always admired folk painting, and last week I got the opportunity to take a class in Norwegian-style folk painting . . .
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October 16, 2009 02:42 AM EDT --
Posted for Susan Budig's Daily Freewrite Friday Focus: Hands
Their hands reach for mine as I lift them, direct them. Some are like crab claws that grab whatever they can reach. If they can’t . . .
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October 12, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
I took driver's ed as a high school senior, but didn't get my driver's license till I was 32, had a baby, and my hubby said it was time I learned to drive. There is a term for what I had: tachyphobia, . . .
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October 07, 2009 02:25 AM EDT --
From October through June, the Bainbridge Island Nordic Dance comes to life at Island Center Hall. Last Saturday's First Saturday Nordic Dance featured Gammeldans, one of our favorite bands, who came . . .
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October 02, 2009 04:29 PM EDT --
Woke up from a dream of a train trip through Russia. Why Russia? A mystery until I walked by the dryer and saw a book about Peter the Great that I had read a few pages of last night and dropped on the . . .
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September 28, 2009 10:31 PM EDT --
"...Poetry may be traced back to primitive man, who used religious rites in which shamans and witchdoctors chanted poetry for the well-being of the tribe or individual." --http://www.poetrytherapy.org/articles/pt.htm . . .
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September 28, 2009 01:48 PM EDT --
Last Wednesday I got to meet my Gather friend, Karen E.!
I had realized from one of Karen's articles that she lives in a town about an hour south of me where a fiddling friend of mine also lives. . . .
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September 10, 2009 07:42 PM EDT --
(Posted for the Snippets Group and Thursday Writing Essentials)
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September Camping
Flapping tent fly rhythms of sawing firewood gold leaves pooled in boots
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September 10, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
Okay Autumn
let us have it
shrivel us with your cold breath
freeze our sweat to salt crystal
then send an Indian summer day,
your trick-or-treat surprise
knock us off our feet with rivers . . .
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September 06, 2009 08:23 PM EDT --
Salmon season opened on July 16th this year. T-Dawg could hardly wait to get out there. I dropped him off near the beach around 5:30 a.m. He grudgingly put up with my picture-taking. This is the short . . .
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September 03, 2009 04:22 PM EDT --
This time I decided not to time myself, but to try to finish my thoughts. I edited a bit as I went along, too. This was about a half-hour write.
I haven't been walking enough lately, and I liked . . .
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September 01, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
A poet strikes a match from words
to light a thought-candle
that may burn
yet light one's path
(Inspired by Richard Livesay's prompt on "Poor Poet's Pantry" online)
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August 31, 2009 01:42 AM EDT --
I like to make a pot of beans every so often. The boys like to make nachos and quesadillas, so it's cheap and delicious to cook beans ourselves in the crockpot. But after a few days it's time to . . .
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Alison H.
North Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Fair-weather cyclist, all-weather friend
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