JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

finding Elisabeth Elliot’s newletter in my mailbox. Today I got the last issue. After more than twenty years of writing a quarterly newsletter, Elisabeth says “it seems to be the right time to bring this chapter of my life to a close..” I first heard of Elisabeth Elliot when I was a college student. Although […]

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My brother’s band Spiral has a show tomorrow night at Chop Suey . I’ve never been but I know my brother is excited about the opportunity to play there. In today’s paper there’s an article about tonight’s show at Chop Suey with band IQU, and the calendar mentions Spiral there tomorrow night. Curious, I looked […]

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I don’t think I’ve ever said anything to Abigail about “photographic memory” but this is what she’s been saying recently…. Abigail: I have film in my head that takes pictures of words. I have a special kind of film that doesn’t run out…. I take pictures with my eyes…. I have pictures in my head…. […]

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Today I felt inspired to take my camera out on our walk through the neighborhood. Here I got a picture of some of the last flowers in our yard. There are a few verbena in the front although I think that the pink flowers did not survive the frost well. There’s also one orange pansy […]

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Earlier this fall, I decided to tackle an overgrown area of weeds behind our garage. Tall grasses, blackberry vines, dandelions, seedling trees and all sorts of invasive prickly plants had grown waist-high in the 200 square feet or so of steep clay slope. I didn’t have a good tool for the job, so I headed […]

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