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The Empty Couch
Grandpa on the couch We all grieve in different ways. Some people grieve loudly, others in silence. Some people take a long time to grieve, other people finish grieving in a short time. Grandma told me she was grieving long before Grandpa actually died, and I think that is true for me also. But that [...]
September 11th, 2009
At 5:00 AM on Friday, September 11th, Grandpa slipped away. He lingered a week after he took his final turn. A week where he did not eat, and drank only a few drops. He passed quietly. Thank you all for your kind comments. The family took it as well as could be hoped. We all [...]
Saying Goodbye
(I didn’t edit this for quality of writing. Maybe some other day) There were a lot of things I wanted to write before this, but life never goes in the neat little order we desire. I wanted to write about how Grandpa and I would laugh together, the foolish games we would play, and how [...]
Regularity
I thought again today about one of my weaknesses. I do not work well in a lack of regularity. To be most productive, I need a consistent hour to rise in the morning, and a consistent hour to go to bed at night. For years and years I got up at a regular time every [...]
Walking The Creek
On Sunday I went for a walk along the creek, scouting out locations for photography. While on the walk, I discovered an old typewriter on the bank of the creek. I thought it very peculiar (why an old typewriter discarded all by itself, here?) and cool. It captured my fancy, but since I didn’t know [...]
Facing Facebook
This week I opened a Facebook(1) account, and I’m feeling a bit uncertain about it. I avoided doing this for a long time. Typically I don’t sign up for an account with a website without a reason–I dislike randomly handing out my e-mail address. In particular I shy away from “social” or “social-networking” websites. I [...]
March Sun
Today it is supposed to get up to high in the lower 40′s. Tomorrow, up into the fifties. This morning it started out with a sharp chill, but now as the morning wanes toward noon the temperature is around freezing. The sky is crystal clear, an azure blue with the sun brightly shining. It is [...]
The City is Killing You
New studies are coming out all the time which claim to prove this or that point. Some studies “prove” things which were obvious to most of us. Other studies prove less than the authors of the study think. And in some studies the results are debatable but since the results fit in with our own [...]
February Thaw
It was early February, that Saturday morning when I went down to the creek. The sun shone from a blue sky, feeling somehow brighter and more cheery that it had in several months. The snow crunched hard under my feet as I walked to the tree line. Snow that has sat many weeks, settling, melting [...]
Grandpa’s Guitar
G . . . F . . . E . . . D . . . C . . . E . . . A . . . G. The notes slide down the scale, clear and sharp, except where I flub it. I’m learning the guitar. If you had asked me four, or maybe [...]
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