The gentle throbbing, I wonder: Is it normal?
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Today’s find: Sonic fusion
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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: Reconciliation
My left hip was barking at me Friday night, the product of pickle ball played earlier that day (and probably also a reminder of the golf round played the day before).
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Today’s find: Hope
“Well, this is weird,” I said to myself…because there was absolutely no one else in the room with me, watching a recent World Cup match on TV.
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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: Dog fight
There’s a part of me that’s inclined to think Isaiah might profit (ahem!) from spending a little time in my neighborhood.
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Today’s find: Snap!
I was trying to be helpful – really, I was, in my “Gramps” sort of way. Instead, I wound up setting off a mini-crisis.
Or perhaps I should say “sitting off.”
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Today’s find: Road trip
Well, at least one-in-five of us left happy. That would be my cousin’s son, Lucas, who watched his SIU Salukis put a whuppin’ on our SLU Billikens in Carbondale the other night.
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