dear people who read my blog, i’ve thought of such lovely things to tell you. i’ve thought deep thoughts, shallow thoughts, sad thoughts, happy thoughts … and haven’t had sufficient time to write them down. life is busy. but busy with good things. so here’s an update on my life lately, according to instagram. the…
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today i did this race. i did not go very fast, i ran some and walked at least as much, and i didn’t have any pretensions of making it into the top whatevereth. but i finished. considering the level of physical fitness i’m coming from, i’m satisfied. now — onward and upward!
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dear nevermind wherever this may find you now rush to see the sky it’s painted gold with searing strokes like rents revealing heaven and that’s just the period of a sentence in another page of prologue dear nevermind don’t you long to see the curtain lift? i can think of lots of pretty things to…
Read Morei guess life isn’t about escaping awkwardness. i guess it’s more about what you do with the awkwardness when it finds you.
Read Morei love you mary richards
mary tyler moore’s character mary richards is a sort of topsy-turvy heroine of mine. she’s smart, funny, beautiful, dependable, far too nice for her own good and gets into one hilarious scrape after another. she waffles between being confident and being unsure of herself. she doesn’t always have the best ideas about things, nor does…
Read Morei had a revelation today. it was needed. and good.
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just thinking
what if we always said what we meant to say, and meant what we said? precisely what we meant to say. no double entendres, no second guesses, nothing lost in translation. no disguised intentions or veiled meanings. pure, plain honesty. not to wound; just to be unmistakably real. genuine. open. nothing that had to be kept secret.…
Read Morewar stories
1. know who, or what, your opponent is. if you’re fighting the wrong thing, that’s not helpful. 2. there are casualties and sacrifices in war. in some ways, you might be one. sometimes you need to lose in order to win.
Read Morethings my children must learn
latin practical botany world, national and state geography how to read a map astronomy ancient history of everywhere the parts of a ship how to appreciate music ancient, classic and modern how to diagram sentences how to properly make souffles (in addition to reading, writing, arithmetic and all those other things one is supposed to…
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