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Our Front Deck. After Rain. The Echium Has Attained Seussical Proportions. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Eight Rain blessed our land and now everything is drying and the creatures are hungry. I’m watching the Echium. Its purple torches call the bees. They’re calling the hummingbirds. The camera calls me so I step onto the deck, inhale […]
Barely. Barely is Enough. Brownies, Cocoa, and Sufficiency Lost in the brownie-baking ritual, I greased a pair of well-loved pans, fitted a paddle to my red Kitchenaid stand mixer, measured sugar into its bowl. As the butter and sugar whirled and spun to spectral creaminess, I reached for the cocoa box. Its near-weightlessness stunned me. […]
Plum, Leafing Out. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Six Spring is muscling right in despite my schedule and I can stop to breathe it or not but it’s coming anyway. The plum tree is half-leaved already–no, even more. Only a few flowers remain. Wasn’t it yesterday that I awoke and noted the blooms first […]
Green Grasshopper The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Three I’m up and away from my desk, waiting as my husband installs a bookcase that he’s renewed with care for my use. Wandering onto the front deck. I breathe deeply of the winter air, not-too-chilly in California. I glance at the spent tomato plants, their cages […]
Green Grasshopper The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Three I’m up and away from my desk, waiting as my husband installs a bookcase that he’s renewed with care for my use. Wandering onto the front deck. I breathe deeply of the winter air, not-too-chilly in California. I glance at the spent tomato plants, their cages […]
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