This morning, while walking around downtown Bainbridge, Abigail said, “I see a fancy car” Indeed, it was a Mercedes – but I don’t think my daughter was recognizing that. No, what she was noticing was the bright sunburst painted on the hood, the lovely purple flowers climbing along the side window, and the pasture with […]
Entries from August 2003
Fancy car
August 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off on Fancy car
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Leadership potential
August 3rd, 2003 · 1 Comment
Reading the Seattle Times this morning, I discover how obvious it is that I have leadership potential : you can see it in my feet…. …and all these years I thought it was called Morton’s foot (no, my toes are not as extreme as in this photo….) The other day my husband Ted posted this […]
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Sitting outside on a Sunday morning….
August 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off on Sitting outside on a Sunday morning….
This morning I sat outside on my porch for a few moments of quiet. Simple observations in the silence spoke many words to me inside. I looked at my fountain, which I had fixed yesterday. Two years ago while taking a water features class, I desired to have some sort of sophisticated fountain, so I […]
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When you speak music…
August 2nd, 2003 · Comments Off on When you speak music…
On July 21st, I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR and briefly caught a bit of Robert Siegel’s interview with Valery Gergiev, who conducted a new recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 “The Leningrad” with the combined Kirov Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic. Today I looked on NPR’s web site and found the audio […]
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Remember when it rained?
August 2nd, 2003 · Comments Off on Remember when it rained?
One of the headlines in today’s Times, referring to our dry weather so far this summer. Yes, it’s been wonderful. Especially for Seattle. And yes, I do remember when it rained…. twelve years ago today 🙂
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