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Month: August 2011

Did Mr. G. Have Kids?

August 31, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Your children are not your children.  They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give […]

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And I Will Still Read To Myself

August 30, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

When I Grow Up I will get married and have 11 kids and my husband will look cute and he will stay home when I go to work. He will go to work when I have the day off.  I […]

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A Life Of My Own

August 29, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

After all these years, I still get the itch,  right about now, to set up my classroom.  It can’t be helped; it’s in my fat cells. The urge to staple red and orange leaves to the bulletin board, sharpen a fistful […]

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The Trap Of Thinking

August 28, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way […]

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Riding Life

August 27, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

I woke after having a dream where a huge, curling wave was heading for the beach. Someone said, “The ferry we’re getting on has to go through that.” Oh. It is the proverbial calm before the storm. The air, eerily still. Nothing […]

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B WOT UR

August 26, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

A Friday message: B WOT UR B WHO UR LIV 4 2DAY THANKS, VIRGINIA!

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Go Forward

August 25, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

In the mix of the electric bill, bank statement, and a whole bunch of junk mail that comes for Dad, there was a letter for me. A lovely letter decorated on the outside with words like magnificent and adoring and here […]

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Only Moms Can Do That

August 24, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Let’s all gather at the river the beautiful, beautiful river… This snippet of hymn is running circles round my head; memories of my large, boisterous family, belting this baby out, as much as the Presbyterians of my childhood belted. Actually, […]

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Not Quite Home Yet

August 23, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

I slipped away over the weekend to get Claire, my traveling daughter, who’s been to one end of the country… LA/San Diego for two and 1/2 weeks- home for one day, then promptly out to the very tip of Long Island […]

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Go To Your Belly

August 18, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Go to your belly… When facing a decision today, be it small or large, pause first to pay attention to what you feel in your belly. This “second brain” will never lead you astray. – from A Year of Living […]

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