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October 22, 2009
- Be fair, he cried, be fair!Maybe you are right, dear sir,I live in perfection, to their eyes,But I can't live my days in lies..It's the matter of the hours, the little minutes,I curb my heart, I am chained with limits..I only ask for a fresh, wild garden,With merry plants that carry no burden..A breathing jasmine and a happy tree,I smile to them, they smile to me..Momentary occupation, this fame ...
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October 16, 2009
- There's something magical about the generous sugar coating of the first snow that I stepped into at dawn...A wee pink stripe in the sky...More looking north, northwest...I'm glad I wasn't over there, it looks a bit scary...I have a head cold, and have been at home in bed doctoring myself for the last two days...I sort of feel like how this pitiful flower looks...Ah, but this one wore it's snow so ...
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September 23, 2009
- How do I speak this tale of a once bleeding heart, my dear fellow human beings on this trying and often complicated journey called life? Indeed, the unwavering affirmation of life's spiritual dimension got me through in God's loving care. Sometime, during early 2002, in Geneva, Switzerland, I got the devastating pill of race and colour based rejection plus unreciprocated love from an Argentine ...
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September 15, 2009
- I pulled most of the onions from the garden last night. Now they are "resting" (drying a bit) on a screen in the garage. Assuming I can figure out how to store them properly so they last through the winter, I am going to plant about ten time as many next year. They were totally maintainence free and I think they helped keep the pests down.I have also started to pull my cranberry ...
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September 4, 2009
- Wherever we have lived, we have always had great luck with neighbors.Our current gang is no exception. We live on a very short lane, so there are only six other families besides us, and we're all pretty busy and self-absorbed most of the time, but occasionally someone has a barbecue (we just attended a pig and wine affair next door that was fabulous—a whole roast pig and the neighbors' own ...
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August 31, 2009
- Yesterday was a low energy day for me, perfect for a day spent running errands and doing the tedious and necessary things in life one must do. Bah. Now they're over with.My reward was to make the best pesto I have ever made with basil from my garden and fresh garlic grown by a guy near the village. This is a lean month here in the Forest and the price of pine nuts was too hight, so I used ...
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August 11, 2009
- A week or so ago I said on Twitter that in my garden it looks like the flowers all got drunk, trashed the place, and now they have a hangover. I was not exaggerating--the garden was so overgrown that I could hardly get down any of the paths, and the flowers had all grown so tall and crazy, then flopped over with exhaustion, that it really did seem like they'd been on some kind of crazy binge ...
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June 19, 2009
- I'm a TV-eater. When meals are ready I take the plate through to the living room and put something on. If I'm eating alone in public I'll make sure I have a book with me.Lunch today was a wedge of cheese and potato tortilla with rocket, cherry tomato and beetroot salad. None of it from the garden (god bless M&S) but all fresh and wholly delicious.I sat at the table outside in the sun (thank ...
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May 12, 2009
- This weekend gardener Monique Gin planted some native plants in the little plots in front of our house. When she was done, Monique gave us a box of earth worms and told us to spread them around to help turn the soil. “Do it at night so the birds don’t get ‘em,” she said with her Australian accent. That evening there was an NBA playoff game on TV and, though it wasn’t yet dark, I ...
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May 7, 2009
- As I write the trees perform a dance for me right in front of the window. They bend themselves into enviable positions, their limbs agile and supple. Graceful. I wish I could bend like they do, stretch myself out and tilt my body to the ground. I cannot, yet I watch them transfixed from my stance at this purring computer, this cold piece of technology feeling as rigid and restless as the same ...
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