stories

Having spent a satisfying Morning with Mom, we decided to go grab a bite to eat, then walk Torrey Pines State Beech for Sunset. It was a totally-fantastic day!

She asks "Where are we to spend our time tonight (given that I had not made sleep accommodations for that Friday)"?

'I don't really know . . . maybe we can find a hotel in the LA area that's close to the airport?'

[She immediately dives-down into her phone, and produces a solution]

"Wi Spa . . . it's gana be great."

Thích Nhất Hạnh, who passed in 2022, wrote in The Art of Living

We should not be afraid of suffering. We should be afraid of only one thing, and that is not knowing how to deal with our suffering.

Despair and feeling hopelessness are languages that many are not able to speak.

I am heartbroken when I read the stories of those who have reached a "I cannot do 'this' any more" cusp-point.

I am heartbroken because I have been faced with such a cusp.

one moment . . . one moment . . . I bring you a message:

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There’s no such thing as mixed signals. Mixed signals are actually clear signals You’re either misinterpreting or Straight up ignoring. If you can’t get a clear answer from someone, That IS your answer

—Kelsey Grant

Some, but that came later, before the Storm.

Feinting prospective perspectives in a liquid courtship dance.

49+ years of laughter, talk, sadness, goofy faces, silence, dinner, catz, ablutions, happiness, and all the other moments that wrote the novel of Us . . .

. . . "a photo says a thousand words", it has been said.

I awake late, clear in my head, but muddy in my body...the indulgence of enthusiasm sometimes carries me to eddies and backwaters; caution, of no heed.

Where did I lay that paddle?

When Barbara said we were gana pound pansies this past Saturday, I just had to have her reiterate, 'cause, well, I had no idea...

So, you pluck some pansy/viola blooms…

Using a rubber mallet, one basically pounds the blooms between watercolor paper and parchment paper, transferring the colour from teh blooms into the absorptive paper, effectively creating an instant print!