Sunday morning we went to visit friends who live in a rural area. On the drive south, we saw the Olympic range over Liberty Bay. That was a scene itself: only the top of the peaks were visible, the rest of the mountains covered in fog. It seemed sacred. Mysterious. Spiritual. From our friends’ living […]
Entries from March 2004
Next time I’ll pack my paints
March 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on Next time I’ll pack my paints
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Pass the parcel
March 15th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Via Anita Rowland I learned that the phrase pass the parcel is on the OED Appeals list: Words or phrases which appear on the Appeals List are those currently being drafted or revised for the Oxford English Dictionary for which the documentary evidence is incomplete. I hadn’t heard or played pass the parcel until last […]
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It’s only a matter of time
March 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on It’s only a matter of time
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. —last line of James Joyce’s story The Dead In Where do people die, and who finds the bodies? Lisa Williams wrote: During the dinner […]
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Found in the garden
March 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on Found in the garden
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Man at Work
March 14th, 2004 · 1 Comment
I like to watch Ted work. There’s something about the way he focuses on the task. I like to see him solve problems. I like how he uses whatever he has to get the job done. And I’m not the only one who likes to watch him. If Ted were a construction worker, the girls […]
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