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Entries from April 2004

The opportunity to dream

April 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on The opportunity to dream

From The Seattle Times article describing Olympic rower Jennifer Devine: “It’s important to allow people the opportunity to really dream,” Devine said last week, sitting in a conference room at the Pocock Rowing Center on Lake Union. “A lot of places in this world, life is pretty cheap. If you don’t have the opportunity to […]

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Imagining Giverny

April 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Imagining Giverny

yeah, I’ve got a lot to imagine to get to Giverny from my garden, but irises always remind me of Monet which reminds me of a certain young man who took a certain young woman to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston many years ago…

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Tags: marriage

Oh… so that’s why he does that…

April 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Oh… so that’s why he does that…

Tonight at dinner I asked my husband how we could clean the windows in our house. I was wondering whether we should hire someone or if we could take them apart and do it ourselves. Suddenly Ted got up from his seat, put his chopsticks down, and walked towards a window in the dining room […]

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What would you buy for love?

April 23rd, 2004 · 1 Comment

From Dean Esmay’s post True Love I found Tony Woodlief’s story of a husband sent on a shopping trip to pick up something [read “exceedlingly personal feminine product”] for his wife: When Duty Calls Don’t Answer …I don’t remember whether I’ve sent Ted out to buy items from the feminine aisle for me. I will […]

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Indulge me

April 23rd, 2004 · 2 Comments

Indulge me, he said last night, while driving, taking the long way… So please indulge me as I post these pictures of my husband, taken that night… I love the way the sun shone on him, the shapes and angles it made. How he glows.

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