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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
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One Good Thing EveryWhere EveryDay
In other words – pay attention to the small stuff and be prepared to be amazed. A leaf here, a bird there, and before you know it spring has sprung. If you hadn’t looked you might have missed the whole wonderful thing! Continue reading
Posted in badass-ness, Do the Work, gardens and flowers, life around us, taking time to look
Tagged dothework, observation, science, TakingTimetoLook, teachers
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The Gettysburg Address
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Continue reading
Saturday in the Yard
Quiet Saturday with an early start. The flies (and if I have to be truthful – inchworms) are out in full force so it takes some doing to sit outside and paint in the yard but I managed to do this. Continue reading
From the Quote Box
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. — Albert Schweitzer Continue reading
Posted in From the Quote Box, gratitude, life around us
Tagged gratitude, HelpOthers, quote
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Covid Isn’t Over
Got a text that V-safe check in will be ending June thirtieth. Signed up for that with my first COVID-19 vax and it’s made me feel like a tiny part of the solution for something.
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Posted in Administrivia, covid19, Do the Work, geeky stuff, life around us, Ripped from the headlines
Tagged Administrivia, covid19, CovidIsNotOver, dothework, geekystuff, process
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