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Journaling since 1974. I'm an artist, book lady, and quilter living at the beach with a car guy. We wait out the pandemic in our little condo above the beach. Having been homeless in the 70's, the car guy and I truly appreciate where we are today. All entries are copyrighted under the author's legal name under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. © Copyright 1974-2021.
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A WRINKLE IN TIME in Postcards 4
The pillows lean toward themselves plumply gently melting into their chairs softly folding into their neighbors delightfuly reshaping the sofa, sliding into the old Morris chair as if they real...
YIN AND YANG 421 in Postcards 4
Super high January surf. Do-mess-ticities and dentists today. The laundry goes around, and I go grocery shopping. I found a poem going around in my head, and I managed to write it down befo...
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT in Postcards 4
Reality is a little blurred these days. The eye doctor says my cataracts are to stage three…an elective surgery stage. It’s the year they renew my driver’s license, and my vision is borderlin...
RACING in Postcards 4
Datsun 1600, SPL 311 Racing to finish the latest Louise Penny, so we can race downtown to the clinic to have my blood drawn so we can race home to get G to work on time. I can’t schedule t...
SUCCESS AT LAST in Postcards 4
Photo: Dairy Goodness. I’ve been trying to make a decent baked apple for eons. Once long ago, I could cook anything with great verve and produce a pretty good dish at the end. I prided ...
GETTING READY in Postcards 4
Comic Con, 2017, Friday. All sorts of things are coming up….rapidly. If you follow G’s blog you will note that Comic Con is coming up in July. Spring Round up is in April. But this week...
TIME in Postcards 4
Baltimore Album Quilt: 1850’s, Mingei Museum. Time seems to float on by me these days. Sometimes it pauses. I can feel that. I read a chapter, look up, and only moments have passed. I can sew...
SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS LAUGH in Postcards 4
So the dentist said, “We will watch them,” and I continued on with my day. I took a couple of hours to haul two boxes of books to work and price them. By the time I got home, the Doctor had ca...
CAPTAIN POOLIE NEWS in Postcards 4
Captain Poolie, January 2018 I work with a wonderful nurse named Barbara. She’s a very up to date woman with information I didn’t take in the first time she told me. “Lymphoma always come...
RAINY ERRANDS in Postcards 4
Desert outside Vegas It’s a week of necessary errands. Today we meet with our new accountant. He’s a car guy too. Wednesday I see my doc after work. I’ve had a pain in my stomach that n...
TWELFTH NIGHT in Postcards 4
The Christmas cat. The night of the 5th or 6th was Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany. Tradition tells us that’s the day the three wise men visited the baby Jesus. Here, many of o...
MEDIUMS in Postcards 4
• In the collectable business, “smalls” are things like salt and pepper shakers or other tiny things. Doll house furniture is another good example. We have received another seven or so boxe...
AN OLD TRAIN WRECK in Postcards 4
My two helpers plus the stall owner, Barbara, met right on time yesterday morning. Yes, she had sold some books, but there were still over a thousand books to be packed and transported home. N...
APPALLED in Postcards 4
Zoe, paint roller, and books. 2017. I was running around yesterday getting ready for the 1000 book donation. Were the shelves emptier? I drove down and counted shelves and books. There ...
LIKE NINE PINS in Postcards 4
Sunburst Quilt, Unknown maker, 1850’s, cotton, at the Mingei museum. George gave me a full body massage for Christmas. Dear Man. I went to the pool for a bit first then got a wonderful ru...
A GREAT START in Postcards 4
George’s cold/flu is better. At Last. He made an appearance at our Sunday meeting last night. For two years he has sat at the head table. This was his last time up there. Last time as chai...
BANNERS in Postcards 4
I like to keep my blogs fresh, and one way I can on Blogger and Facebook, but not here, is to refresh the banner. It’s like washing the dishes or making the bed…a fresh banner makes me think i...
ALWAYS CHANGES in Postcards 4
Photo: Charlie Davis, 1969. Photo: Margot Hawkins, 2017. Although everything changes, somethings stay the same. Charlie Davis, a neighbor from LA, photographed that young and i...
WHAT MORE COULD I WANT in Postcards 4
Japan, probably Nara, 1800. This is a cleansing water fountain. This urn came from the Todai Temple near Kyoto. It’s a quiet, cold and sunny morning. Dear Sick George is at work and s...
A QUIET HOLIDAY in Postcards 4
Bobbie up in a 1909 International Harvester truck. It’s really the little things that really matter. Friday night, we changed seats at our regular meeting, and I could hear what folks sa...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS in Postcards 4
Off to sort at the Discovery Shop. There are still signs of the holidays there, but I am resolutely ignoring them. Instead I wish you a happy, peaceful day with friends, family, or alone if t...
THANK YOU'S in Postcards 4
Front door in 2004. I’m playing housewife today. Washing the sheets, buying a few groceries, and most important, saying thank you often as I move about my day. The house is tidy. You c...
THANK YOU'S in Postcards 4
Front door in 2004. I’m playing housewife today. Washing the sheets, buying a few groceries, and most important, saying thank you often as I move about my day. The house is tidy. You c...
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA in Postcards 4
Click on this link: Wreaths Across America. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Himself: Working hard. Herself: Putting the house together. Reading: ”The Blue Sword.” And it’...
SOLUTIONS in Postcards 4
• A musician neighbor of ours stopped by yesterday. He gave us two low cost solutions for gifts to Bobbies companion Geoff. Simply delightful. • I bit into a chunk of fudge in a tiny scoop...
