October 19, 2021
Gleanings
- My family journey is an affirmation of the beauty and worthiness in life and relationships which are salvaged and repurposed.
- When I pointed out that a recipe book on her kitchen counter was mine, she said, Oh, we’re having sex, I hope you don’t mind. I didn’t mind about the sex. I did mind about my recipe books and cake tins.
- We can all connect to scenes of swimming in the local pool, waiting for the bus or sharing a meal with friends. No doubt, Monet, Morisot et. al. would be fans.
- Does an axis wish for a particular season?
- I’ve been thinking a lot about the words we use to describe ourselves as I step into retirement and cope with the death of my mother.
- I became very adept and meeting people and communicating online, and now this has become the primary way I engage the world.
- So it’s a good time of year to be looking in puddles–what’s real, what’s reflection, where’s your focus?
- I Will Follow Claire-Louise Bennett Anywhere
- Horror means something to me. It gets me through shit. Horror movies have literally saved my life. Maybe not life, exactly, but more like, just … saved me.
- I’m caught up in the details of organizing this ritual. Somehow, I have to free my thoughts of the minutia and write a eulogy. Sometimes there is a tendency to focus only on glorious achievements, while ignoring more down-to-earth, even negative aspects. I want to write about all of it, but from a place of love and understanding.
- My eight year old is obsessed. Can’t stop trying to spend her money on little bits of plastic that squish, or pop or spin. It is making me nuts, causing my inner panic buttons to be pressed about waste and the future and poverty and sea turtles.
- Our long walks up the mountain aren’t quite what they were. Rough ground presents difficulties so we try to find places to walk where the terrain is even. But I have to say that otherwise, things go on as they always did.
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I’m so pleased to see these people blogging and writing such interesting, and wide-ranging, topics. One of these gleanings has given me inspiration for a photography project.