Into the blue

It’s all going by so quickly now. I remember the day last spring when Lila and I found this egg in the grass and brought it inside so we could look at it whenever we wanted to feel that remarkable blue. Feel it? There’s a little bit left. Decades ago when I found my first [...]

Grace in small things: 26 of 365

1. The new hat that’s been keeping the heat in my body and helping me to not complain so much about how bloody cold I am. I should go put it on now because my legs feel like icicles. 2. A fresh inch of snow every day for a week, keeping the snow from the [...]

Grace in small things: part 23 of 365

1. Sitting at a stop light, just before dawn, watching the snow blow upwards in the streetlamp light, the sky behind it tinged pink. 2. Still not giving myself shit for not finishing any substantial posts yet. 3. Higher speed high-speed internet. 4. Simple stir-fried vegetables with a ginger, garlic and soy sauce for dinner [...]

Grace in small things: part 21 of 365

1. Giving myself permission (without the requisite inner spanking) to finish that sourdough post tomorrow. Also, the bread came out kinda dense. Dense, but tasty. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. 2. Excellent client meeting today with enough work passed off to keep me busy for the next few weeks. 3. My cellphone magically [...]

I’ll fly away

I felt my life wasting away in a grinding fluorescent coma. Parked in a most decidedly not ergonomic chair, at a too-high desk, in front of a computer monitor for eight hours a day, five days a week, working for a company I cared less and less about with every bad decision they made. I [...]

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