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October 21

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2017 Organ recital on Klais organ at Bath Abbey. Adan, you would have loved it! 4th best restaurant in England, per the sidewalk sign. It was pretty good. Gainsborough lived here. Yes, THAT Gainsborough Bath Book Fair, where I casually browsed 1st edition books worth 500 BPS There were 2 of this “Peacock” P&P edition: different book sellers, but both charged 375 BPS. Or was it 575? Several of these: lots of Rackham illustrated books. This one only 100BPS 2016 I learn they gutted My 1893 house. I feel gutted too. 2015 The fire alarm works In the Conference hotel. Waiting for my keys. Um, no Facebook goons, I do NOT want to see pix Of my ex-husband. After 30 years Of working with abused books, I've learned how to heal. 2013 I never met her, But she's a huge part of him. Is that why I grieve? I forgot to take The antidepressant pill. Twice. Why am I weepy? 2011 I have dog biscuits In my pocket, so I share With the choc'late labs. I knit him a hat For our anniversary. We wa...

October 7

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2018 Abiquiu and nearby studio tour sites Spider weekend Finally, a visit to the frosty cow Char provides scale the usual view 2016 First leg completed. I watch him race to the gate. It shuts in his face. 2013 A drive by shooting In the Manzanas. Victim; A rusted tractor 2010 A crisp fall morning: My feet are compelled to kick Through rustling leaf drifts. 2009 I like this motto revision..."Soli ego gloria" Right up there with "there is no whining in Ilium" Feeling better: late afternoon is THE time for the pool. Empty lanes rock! Swam 12 laps (by my calculation 4 laps short of half a mile.) Hmmm. Have been thinking of T.S. Eliot...measuring our lives in coffee spoons has given way to measuring our lives in twitter bits. And waiting at bus stops, listening to cell phone conversations. How does one live in the moment, when so many moments are...uninspiring? (A sunny autumn day helps, but...)