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On Destiny and Old Trucks
“I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny. It seems to get up early and go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
It was while sitting in a university’s student union, having coffee with my husband, that I was compelled to get up and use one of the school’s computers to log into WordPress. (Yup, kinda always...
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My Gift Is My Song, And This One’s For You
“Yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can’t look back for too long. There’s just too much to see, waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can’t go wrong.” Jimmy Buffett, Changes in Latitudes,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
This is me and my sweet Buffett back in February 2010. Poor girl wasn’t feeling well at all as she just had surgery to repair a ruptured ACL. Because she couldn’t put weight on her leg, four times a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Caption inside the card reads: What is WRONG with these people? I have loved this little sheep since I first saw him eight years ago. I bought the card with no intention of ever sending it to anyone....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
Home. When I see the grave of an unknown soldier like this one in our city’s cemetery, I try not to think of the sad politics of war and the atrocities humans are capable of committing. No, instead I...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: KISS
KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid. My dad used to say that a lot. I didn’t understand it when he did. I was a kid. What did I know about running a business, or even life for that matter. Dad died just a few...
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All Are But Parts Of One Stupendous Whole
“He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied Being peoples every star,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
Last week was a tough one. My BS filter malfunctioned and the normal stuff that doesn’t usually bother me came rushing in and left me overwhelmed by life’s nonsense. When this happens I have to go into...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost In The Details
Yesterday our house was the setting for a surprise 18th birthday party hosted by my daughter Meg and her friend. The girls did all the planning, preparation and decorating, all Neal and I had to do was...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime
This is what I have been serving up for lunch around my house lately. Worms. Yes, worms. Now, before you go saying anything, remember what constitutes a good lunch is strictly a matter of perspective....
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On Making What I See In My Mind Become Reality
The white picket fence I’ve always wanted is up, the deck I envisioned in my mind is built, the four cubic yards of gravel that make the patio and parking court is dispersed and the first 30 plants are...
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Salty, Sweet and Just Right
This post goes out to Becky at Blessings Thru Raindrops. Her post about putting good stuff into the world that is filled with, well, put nicely, not a lot of good stuff, sounded like something I wanted...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense
My cart at Lowe’s is full of the plants and flowers I’m adding to my garden, as well as the chalkboard paint I’m using on the door in my new home gym I’m calling “Average Charlotte’s.” The name is a...
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The Elegance of Wonder
“I’d rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” Gerry Spence Light Echoes from V838 Mon What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon’s outer surface...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day In My Life
1. A good morning greeting from my good friend. Such a nice way to start the day. 2. Morning coffee and this week’s photo challenge. When I saw this photo and how messy my desktop has gotten again, I...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color
Or In My Case, Colorless… For my 37th birthday I gave myself the gift of healthy aging. I started running and lifting weights. I started eating more of what I always knew I should eat. I lost 20...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change
It all began with a Halloween costume I wore in 2011. See I work in a health club and a lot of the members I interact with are retired. So I thought it would be fun to dress up in my poodle skirt and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Up
Up on a ski, my gaze to the shoreline, cutting the wake, working my way as far out to the side as I can, to for a moment, lean over and touch the water. There is but one word to describe that feeling…...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
Far away from the Chamber of Commerce’s ribbon cuttings there is a forgotten area in my city. It is where orphaned buildings are allowed to stand and over time evolve into echoes of days long gone....
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