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Poet’s Corner
I Am Always Wrong I do not seem to have a single thought instead I feel bombarded by a thousand words and ideas all crashing into one another circling around my mind as if driven by their own will instead of mine I am too old to continue to believe in happy endings or…
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A View From the Road
Apollo 3 Vanity plates do not always grab my attention, but how often have you seen Apollo 3 sitting in front of you in traffic, in the Maryland / DC area? Because of where I saw the plates, I assumed they were somehow tied to the space mission, but it turns out there is also…
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Perfect Post Cards
The Miracle Mile Once upon a time, I used to live off of Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. I happened to move there shortly after the original Brown Derby Restaurant, the one shaped like a derby hat, was demolished. One evening, after walking around the Ambassador Hotel, I ventured north a block,…
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Food
Peanut Butter Cookies For years, I have given the Betty Crocker Cookbook to new cooks – it was watching Kate learn to make bread, with that book, that convinced me it is a good book for beginning chiefs, to have on their shelves and more importantly, in their kitchen. My copy is well…
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The Making of a Millennial
Lifetime Guarantees “A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.” -Albert Einstein – People are diverse, dynamic, divided, and destructive. Despite our differences and how we use them to define ourselves, we all come with the same set of lifetime guarantees. We are all flawed, we will all fear,…
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The Dialogue
How Can I Say Thank You Marigold? This week, my Uncle Gary, suggested that I should become friends with Marigold. It was a fine suggestion, but thankfully Marigold is already in my life. I inherited the privilege of her friendship, through my Mother. A few days ago, I received a private message, on…
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Holiday’s
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur “Le shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,” Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on September 20 and ends at nightfall on September 22, in 2017. The New Year is ushered in according to Leviticus 23, with the sounding of the Shophar, calling Jews to seek God’s forgiveness, reflecting…
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In Nature
Tobacco There are moments when I am feeling bolder than others, on this particular day, I spotted these men, hard at work, in a tobacco field, and decided to stop and ask them if I might photograph them and their labor – they all kindly said yes. I am sure they…
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In the Wild!
A Bald Eagle! Photographed by Lois Robertshaw “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” ~ Isaiah 40:31 ~ This morning, our neighbors called to tell us, to look…
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Art
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook by Camille Pissarro I have not featured much of Pissarro’s work; I am not sure why, as he is an artist, whom I truly admire…
