The sun wasn’t up yet, but I was.
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Today’s find: Pause
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Today’s find: Making room
Things got a little tight in our family room yesterday.
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Today’s find: Gloom, dispelled
It wasn’t a “driving” rain exactly. More like “steady,” the winds mercifully silent as we made our wet way along Front Street for the four-minute walk from the prison’s entry house to the chapel deep inside the grounds yesterday.
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Displaced
I’ve got just about everything I need while on retreat this weekend. Except shampoo. And my hairbrush. And an extension cord to power my CPAP breathing machine.
Other than that, I’m good.
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Today’s find: Crew-cut
Our slender tender hydrangea tree has taken a beating in recent days.
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Today’s find: Buzzards & burros
I’ve been inside The Joint often enough not to ever expect an inviting welcome. But yesterday’s approach was something else.
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Today’s find: Obscured
In my haste, I was sorely tempted to do something truly foolish the other morning.
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Today’s find: “Untitled”
They got an eyeful the other day, my grandsons did…when they came across Donald Judd’s “Untitled” in Gallery 253 of the St. Louis Art Museum.
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Today’s find: Obstacle course
Normally, I’d expect a walk in the woods to provide comfort.
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Today’s find: Night watch
Midnight came early last evening. Or so it seemed.
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With Us Still 