BABY BUDDIES

 

This is Firecat scratching the post that Dan made for him and his pal Teaser, shown above on the deck.

 

 

 

SWEET AS THEY MAY APPEAR, IT IS… Read full post »

Below is a photo of me wearing my golden elitist’s tiara on my birthday in 2004.  I save it for the most special occasions.  Well it’s plastic and it kind of squeezes my head a little tight, so I don’t like to overuse it.    That is my fellow elitist and… Read full post »

On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in one of the cruelest crimes during the civil rights e… Read full post »

Does anyone remember that the Equal Rights Amendment has not yet passed?  Did we forget?

Now that I've got your eye, it isn't only that!  More pressing and immediate: Remember that the presidential election is not the only election going on!  What about the p… Read full post »

 Being a 60's girl, I wasn't really surprised when I saw this, but you have to know it was in a very upscale neighborhood next door to a sushi restaurant that had Tatami mats and tables with cushions all around.  So imagine my surprise after eating a meal with most… Read full post »

In 1990 I met my friend Mary in a seminar in Monterey, California, on September 2nd.  We had both enrolled in the seminar with the idea of quitting smoking.  I quit first.  Mary was  soon a quitter as well.   It was a good year.  I met my husband at about… Read full post »

I have been here for a little while now.  I notice that not only on my own blog, but on many other blogs there can be a long string of comments, including repeat comments, far exceeding the number of ratings the blog gets.  It doesn't make sense to me from the… Read full post »

Body weight influenced by thousands of genes

For all the work that I have done at various times in my life, I was pretty pissed off last night about what Sarah Palin's comparison of being a mayor to community organizing.  Here's a video that says it pretty well for me:

There are a wide variety of ways in which we can be “spiritual tourists.”  I should tell you a little about how I came to this name for this state of spiritual inquiry.  Each of us here has done some traveling, my husband Dan and I have done a good/… Read full post »

 This is my response, emailed this evening, to an article written by Ron Fornier, which you can find here.

Michael Oreskes, AP Managing Editor

Ron Fournier, AP reporter and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief 

Dear Sirs: 

I can't help but think this was the laziest bit of counterfe… Read full post »

We live in a gorgeous brown shingled house with entwined cedars right outside the french doors to our bedroom. We see these beauties when we wake in the morning. These trees serve as a metaphor for how our lives have become involved with the four seasons, the woods and the lake… Read full post »

this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

If I was going to be guided by this declaration, I would just have to say my life has been muddled by great passion for a great many things.  I married… Read full post »

and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

J. Krishnamurti

So far, I have found that it is only somewhere inside that I will find an interim kind of Truth, that what others have sought to teach me has often h… Read full post »

to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

Eric Hoffer

Sometimes our neighbors look like this shouting beast to us.  I don't know if we tole… Read full post »

 Sometimes we take this little ferry, the Whatcom Chief, for a five minute trip to Lummi Island.  We go for reefnet salmon and chips at a little restaurant and look out to get a perspective on where we live and some quickly achieved separation from our day to day work… Read full post »

"And, to this end, let us not aim at common degrees of merit. Can we not leave, to such as love it, the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society, and ourselves pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth? We easily come up to the standard of goodness… Read full post »

Dan the Man & I with special grandboy & the best kitties ever...

Dan and grandson, Aidan, with the kitty boys when they were small.

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