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Month: February 2011

At Our Fingertips

February 28, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Being alive is our invitation to act in fresh, inventive ways. All it takes is concentrating on our inner vision in combination with external reality. The components for accomplishing any task are at our fingertips, awaiting discovery. Our burdens are […]

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A Family Portrait

February 27, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

On a day like today, Pearly and I would pull out our lounge chairs and slather on the baby oil. Oh yea. I’d have a bottle of beer plunged in the snow next to me, insta-cooler. Pearly usually drank diet […]

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Not Quite A Haiku

February 26, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Green shoots pushing up through the ground… What a joyful sound!

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Claire’s Girl #3 (Yea, I Can Fly)

February 25, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

I’m thinking about the lone beaver I spotted at the river on Wednesday.  It looked like a piece of wet wood drifting, but then it wiggled, slapped its tail, and dove under the dark water. I stood still, tracking with my […]

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Eat What You Want

February 24, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Dad and I drove up the mountain to see his family doctor, Dr. Alice McCormick. It’s the kind of country office where they say, bring your new puppy in! (he’d come along for the ride)…so I brought Chewy into the small […]

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Look Well

February 23, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

“Look well to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In it lies all the realities and verities of existence: the bliss of growth, the glory of action, splendor of beauty. For yesterday is but a […]

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That Is Not My Story

February 22, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

I wrote in my journal this morning about feeling holy. I am divine. A holy spark. I’d read this somewhere and thought, let me try it on, see how it feels.  I felt holy for about three minutes. Then the […]

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Men Hear It Differently: Part Two

February 21, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

If you read yesterday’s post, Men Hear It Differently, it had a bit to do with saxophones and small penises, and communication between the sexes, or more to the point, a conversation between me and my husband and how occasionally […]

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Men Hear It Differently

February 20, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

A funny conversation with my husband yesterday…It went kinda like this:  “I really should go into the office and get some work done but I really want to practice,” Michael said. Pause. “Okay,” I said, That’s a good idea. Go […]

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To See Takes Time

February 19, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

ta-da! …A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower- the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower – lean forward to smell it, maybe touch it with your lips almost without […]

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