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“If you hold onto the beauty and the inspiration and the clarity that is music you will have an anchor. In this life you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.” The pianist Van Clibur...

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The interview at the Children’s Hospital went well. I need to get a background check, a TB test and have an additional interview with the main volunteer coordinator but I have been offered and ...

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Yesterday evening Kes called to ask me a question about how my audio book download process works and the first thing I asked her was, “What is the evolutionary reason for insecurities?” She lau...

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I think this is beautiful. This is the view looking back at our river this last Saturday morning with the new non-car bridge going up in the background. We haven’t seen anything but cloud cover...

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Took this about 9am this morning. The temperature was just at freezing. But what I like is the lack of the rain and the remarkable light. Any light is remarkable and within a half hour the clou...

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There is a rumor circulating around these parts that it may in fact stop raining for a few days. I am not complaining mind you, we need it, the droplets make the deep purple of the crocus shine...

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Checking to see how this washed out photo taken with my phone earlier today translates here. Just after I snapped it the rain started again. It was just lovely to spend time with Kes and Most...

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This picture is a mood piece that indicates how I am feeling right now. Pared down to the bare structure of things. Cold and bone weary of winter, old and, honestly, a bit worn out. So it is gr...

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I just got back from my first fast walk around the track in over a week! So nice to be out and about and breathe fresh air. Sammy is a little disconcerted. He liked having me around to pester ...

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This was ice in the trees out front yesterday evening. We are above freezing now and starting to thaw. There are huge piles of dirty snow and slush everywhere and the buses can’t get near the ...

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Yesterday afternoon the beautiful easy to be out and about in (on foot, sled, snowboard, and skies) snow started to get pelted with freezing rain and now we are living in Ice World. I just rec...

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I’ve worked at the same place in three different jobs on and off since 2001 and they have never actually closed the nonessential care departments for a weather related event until today. We are...

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Just took my recycling out and the bare trees in front were full of goldfinches tittering away. They were high up, just turning into their mating colors so I wasn’t sure if they were Lesser or...

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stand down, step down, bow out, renounce the throne It seems to me that this medium here on Prosebox, (in spite of its name) is better suited to shorter entries. So I will try that. Kind of s...

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When I woke up on Monday morning about the last thing I wanted to do was clock into work. I was emotionally exhausted from struggling with being face to face with a whole bunch of emotional in...

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I know it is just a male mallard but isn’t this a handsome fellow? I am happy with the reflection and basically the shape and painterly texure of the shot. I took this today over at the Oaks Bo...

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Those tiny white dots up in the upper right hand corner here are swans back in a higher pond. Wild swans I might add. We only get two kinds here, Trumpeter and Tundra swans. I am almost positiv...

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I am having a most enjoyable day. I took a sick day off at the end of October and then during the holidays I only took the days themselves off and worked all that overtime, driving to keep up w...

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The miasmic bone chilling Hound of the Baskervilles fog is back and I am having a heck of a time keeping my mood stable. Can you help me out here while I work through my insecurities? So I ...

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So the walk with Mr. Fine China on Sunday turned out to be very birdy. And he is genuinely interested in birds, which is lovely because I am too. On top of that our levels of knowledge are abou...

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Unlike the rest of the Northern Hemisphere we are actually getting our first sustained winter storm coming in just about now. There was an inch and a half of water on the big street near me on ...

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We had a stiff cold breeze yesterday that blew a lot of the crud out of the air and we had some partial clearing in the late afternoon. This morning though the heavy 100% humidity living in a c...

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This is the winter version of the beautiful garden I went birding at a few weeks ago. It looks (and feels) just like this here now. We have an air stagnation advisory in place and they keep ex...

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The gorgeous Miss E. in all her thirteen year oldness. Glued to her iPad Mini. My oldest sister (her grandmother) was sitting in a chair next to her knitting a loose weave scarf in a gold ton...

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Happy Christmas to you all as it unfolds around the world! And how cool is it that for now the diary is working and we can share these good wishes with each other both here and there. I am wo...

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