Tag: life
member name: elizabeth e.
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October 20, 2007 08:30 PM EDT --
Last night a rumbling, grumbling northeasterner came thundering into town raining raccoons and opossums this side of the pond. The wind was screeching and Papa's windchimes, all four of them, . . .
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June 15, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
As everyone on Gather knows, I am not a shopper. I detest going to malls and grocery stores. I can't remember the last time I went shopping. Fran picks up new clothes for me at consignment . . .
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February 23, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Only that morning I had taken a cab home from the BIA Public Health Hospital in Bethel, the largest Yu'pik community in Southwestern Alaska. With me was my two . . .
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June 14, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
The other day I was visiting some old friends that live in Plymouth. Dave and Carol Arnold are third generation lobstermen. Their son Phil was Aaron's best friend at . . .
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July 06, 2008 08:49 AM EDT --
"Mistress Elizabeth is visiting her sister, my Mistress today. When ever she comes, all hell breaks loose. When that woman comes, she tears the house apart and moves all my mistress's . . .
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October 25, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
Thinking about the theme for this week's Zoomit, I thought about a song sung by Joni Mitchell, long ago when I was young:
"And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted . . .
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August 06, 2007 10:16 PM EDT --
In magazines and florist shoppes I have often seen elegant arrangements made out of the dried seed pods of the perennial plant, lunaria annua, otherwise known as money plant, honesty, Moonwort or . . .
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November 18, 2007 12:37 PM EST --
I awoke early this morning, perhaps around four and silently went down the stairs in stocking feet. Going into the computer room, I brought up Gather and read my private emails. Then off . . .
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December 20, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
There's a new face on Gather and she's just a peach. Her name is Lena Lemieux...but you can find her at owlet.gather. She is one of my very supportive Moms and I would like to introduce you to . . .
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June 20, 2008 06:53 AM EDT --
Barbary Chaapel wrote an article This is How Love Looks yesterday and I couldn't help but agree with her thoughts. Love does start first with just a bud and as time goes by blossoms into . . .
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August 20, 2008 07:28 AM EDT --
Out in the garden early one morn
I captured wee faeries in gossamer
blue. Dancing a minuet in
opalescent dresses that shimmered
and sparkled fr om the rays of the sun.
. . .
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March 22, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
I imagine everyone has sung Irvin Berlin's song, "In Your Easter Bonnet" many times over the last few years. Yesterday I had the treat of watching a live Easter Bonnet Parade at Newfield . . .
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June 10, 2008 06:37 AM EDT --
A week ago Sunday I went to Franklin Park Zoo in Boston to preview the place before going to the zoo with my AM class on Monday and my P.M class on Wednesday. Although the Monday trip went off without . . .
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June 13, 2008 06:42 AM EDT --
Last Monday Papa had agreed to babysit Sage while Sage's Mom Lena went to the Zoo as a chaperone with Julia's kindergarten class. Because I have a Baker's cyst on my left leg I was fortunate . . .
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June 22, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
In the late afternoon on the summer solstice, Sophie decided to take a walk around her world. Sophie lives with Ophelia, her mother, her Uncle Othello and Tuck, their loyal canine companion . . .
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August 02, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
" When you set out for Ithaka
Ask that your way be long,
Full of adventure, full of instruction."
~C.P. Cavafy~
"Tricia, how are you ever going to see a bobcat in the wild if . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
"I am just so excited, I can hardly contain myself. Mistress Elizabeth said last night that she has arranged for me to have a playdate. Imagine, little old me having a playdate. . . .
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August 21, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
The birds were singing,
The bees were humming,
And down in the garden,
I heard the blue faeries
murmuring.
"Wee faeries do not swim
in gossamer blue" said
Julia . . .
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August 30, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
This past week I started back to school along with thousands of children through out the nation. For me, this means I'm starting my fortieth year of teaching. Yes, I started long ago in . . .
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December 16, 2007 10:28 AM EST --
This is perhaps our first true winter walk
One down by the edge of the reservoir
There is a softer music now
on the wide swarth of the bog
Which the wind draws from the forest. . . .
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