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Pretty Intense in Everyday Ramblings
Many years ago, in the mid to late 80’s, my sister Kes was living in Normal Illinois and working as a nurse while her husband at the time finished his doctorate in English and taught. Things d...
All the Things in Everyday Ramblings
From Tuesday. Happy early Equinox! Fall and cooler temps for hunkering down, spring and blissfully longer days. They say this is the earliest equinox in 124 years. Along with everything else i...
Feeder Watching With The Cats in Everyday Ramblings
Mrs. Sherlock had an idea for a local hike yesterday near where we had been before but not quite, at least for me. There is one neighborhood up in the West Hills of Portland that was built up ...
Almost Too Big To Get My Head Around in Everyday Ramblings
Early this morning coming back from the grocery I noticed the three new ornamental cherries planted last summer were in bloom. After I washed up and put things away I went over and took pictur...
Unsettled in Everyday Ramblings
From yesterday, this precocious iris is blooming across the street. You can tell that we had sun, lovely healing heartwarming sun. I received an email from my coordinator at the church early ...
It is a Small World...After All in Everyday Ramblings
Daffodils are hard to shoot because they throw off so much glare, plus here their heads are often down from the early wind, rain and gloom. I took this a few days ago when we had a sun break. ...
Tarot, Hope, Tulips and Questions in Everyday Ramblings
The natural cycle is not impressed by Covid-19. It is spring here and the histamines are intense. That means runny noses, scratchy throats, and a random cough now and then. Sitting in church y...
Random Bossy People in Everyday Ramblings
Yesterday, the sun casting shadows on the leaf buds of the pear trees out back. There is a professor (Eitan Hersh) that has written a book called Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Pol...
I'm Glad I'm Glad I'm Glad in Everyday Ramblings
Back in my employment history there was a time when I was an independent financial planner and I loved it but it was very hard to be ethical and make a living working one on one. One of the th...
Disordered But Determined in Everyday Ramblings
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That is the famous take away from the writer Michael Pollen’s most popular book The Omnivore’s Dilemma and a thing he still says today. This last wee...
Change, So Good for the Brain in Everyday Ramblings
Another break in the rain. The narcissuses are all blooming and the purple crocus, as well as a few early trees. After a lifetime of migraines this is the first year ever I am experiencing t...
Not Going Anywhere in Everyday Ramblings
It is winter, it is dark and wet so taking pictures out and about is a bit more of a challenge. This is one of my favorite pictures from a walk during a break in the rain a couple of weeks ago...
Engage and Then Relax... in Everyday Ramblings
Walking over to The Sherlock’s place on Sunday for lunch I had my eye out for signs of spring. It was foggy and cold but later in the afternoon it cleared and although still cold the mountain ...
The Leading Edge in Everyday Ramblings
Ms. Fit had Mrs. Sherlock over Thursday morning to go over “proper” weight training form. As she has been fit and active her whole life I don’t think she is aware of where Mrs. Sherlock’s limi...
Good News in the Midst of the Maelstrom in Everyday Ramblings
I walked by this mural this morning painted under a nearby transit bridge that in the past has been attractive for encampments. That is why there are all those broken up chunks of old concrete...
Crazy Fit Ladies in Everyday Ramblings
This might seem like a small thing but having the energy and the range of motion to wash and change my sheets is pretty exciting here in recovery land. Saturday I got up stiff and sore as I h...
Houston, We Have a Problem in Everyday Ramblings
A shot of the Willamette River from the Steel Bridge traveling from the west to east on a train heading south yesterday morning. Although we had a lot of rain in January, we were getting these...
Doing Things In Stages in Everyday Ramblings
We had a deeply appreciated break in the rain yesterday morning and I made my first independent run to the grocery since the fall. It felt so good to be back doing the regular things. Those bu...
Apparently I Was Delusional in Everyday Ramblings
I still haven’t heard yet about the community garden plot but I am hopeful. One of the things I am hoping to grow is chard; lot’s of chard, and on Monday I got a bunch in my Imperfect box. Wit...
The Prodigal Rolling Pin in Everyday Ramblings
So here I am five days out from the fall and still very much dealing with the injury. It is way better. The intense overwhelming pain is gone, at least mostly. I felt a touch of it this mornin...
A Personal Miracle in Everyday Ramblings
I woke up pale and grumpy Monday and although I had a number of things that could be done before I left in the late afternoon to teach there wasn’t a great deal of motivation to do any of them...
Cooking Gadgets, Shoulders and Entertainment in Everyday Ramblings
From our group hike in the wind and the rain on Friday. If I were a bird this would be a sight for winter weary eyes. As we were all standing in a circle, stamping our feet in the cold, like p...
But Then Again... in Everyday Ramblings
It is raining and foggy and dark dark dark out. I took this a few days back. These are daffodil shoots coming up under the oak leaves behind the fence at what I hope will me “my” community gar...
A Few Dark Reflections in Everyday Ramblings
The ground is getting saturated enough after months of less than normal rainfall to bring trees down with the big wind. I am always sad when a tree comes down and grateful when they don’t take...
But Wow in Everyday Ramblings
New shoots! Crocus I think. Not that my day yesterday was stressful or anything, it was pouring most of the day so it was a domestic one until the evening when I went to teach. We are focusin...
