There and Back Again

Pondering: When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. (Mohandas Gandhi)
Today didn’t start out right at all.
It started last night, really when we got news that there had been a landslide early in the day and so therefore [...]

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Pondering: To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. (William Hazlitt)
Day 2 of our cruise. I woke up early, around 430 p.m. to find two things that brought a smile to my face: first, the vessel was slowly approaching the port of Ketchikan, in the southeastern [...]

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Pondering: Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. (Diane Ackerman)
For the first time in my adult life, I had a massage. Not a back rub or the occasional neck massage my sister gives me [...]

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Pondering: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. (Robert Frost)
It has been ages since I’ve written anything.  This is worrying because it’s either I haven’t had the time, in a long time to write, and/or nothing’s happened to me in a long time that’s worth [...]

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