Tag: reflections
member name: elizabeth e.
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December 25, 2007 11:10 PM EST --
It's the afternoon of Christmas Eve and I sit here at the computer. If I look out into the living room I see a well decorated fir tree with wrapped presents underneath. The stockings are hanging by . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
In the eyes of a child we can discover a great truth ~the unconditional love of a God that accepts each one of us as we are (warts in all) and then, holding our shaking hands, walks with us. For . . .
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October 13, 2008 08:59 AM EDT --
Apple picking,
pumpkin sitting
Fall is in the air.
Ghosts and goblins
Witches, Vampires
Halloween drawing near. . . .
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July 11, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
The unexamined life is not worth living.
~Socrates~
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
~William M. Thackeray~
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October 21, 2007 11:11 PM EDT --
I live in a small, rural town in southeast Massachusetts...it is the town I grew up in and the town I returned to when my wandering days were over. Less then a half mile up the street is . . .
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October 23, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
On Sunday my sister Fran stopped by with a gift for me. Knowing I love to journal and knowing I love Henry David Thoreau, she brought me a new book, "All Nature is My Bride: Passages . . .
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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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January 03, 2008 09:06 PM EST --
The other day my sister gave me a gift. No, it wasn't wrapped up in holiday paper nor tied with a bow; but rather the gift of a day to ramble in a land I did not know. Being four years older, Fran . . .
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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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May 29, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
As everyone on Gather might know, I am not a shopper. I rarely go into stores. You will not find me at the mall on a rainy day window shopping nor at the grocery store on a Saturday morn. . . .
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December 16, 2007 06:55 PM EST --
With colored markers
and white foam board
my wee ones fashion
a planet, colorful and round
Not knowing distance nor continents
They draw in green and . . .
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June 11, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
A week ago Sunday I went on a Preview Visit to Franklin Park Zoo in Boston with my cousin Terry and his friend Gino in preparation for two class trips with my young kindergardeners. Last Monday . . .
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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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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 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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December 23, 2007 08:00 PM EST --
Friday was the last day of school before the winter recess. It was a very busy day with gift-opening, a party, and then to finish off the day the children performed a Concert singing holiday songs to . . .
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December 18, 2007 10:40 PM EST --
As many of you on Gather know, several years ago, five to be exact, in the month of May our house burnt down to the ground. All was lost except a large wooden box containing momentos I treasured of our . . .
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