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Dave’s dad likes ponds. He put a pond in the backyard of the house where Dave grew up. We got a small man-made pond when we bought our house. It was at the edge of a slate patio in the back yard, ringed with a kind of perplexing boxwood hedge that blocks the view of…
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Things have been tense, and when they’re tense I’m drawn inward, away from the stress and complexity of other people. I feel like every where I turn I am hearing someone talk about writing – friends are turning towards writing books, I’m picking up books published by friends, a quick trip in my car gives…
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I started to wonder what all of that knitting was doing for me. What I was expressing or replacing by knitting.
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I tweaked my back two weekends in a row. I have some history of back pain, largely stemming from a jaunty twist in my spine (scoliosis). And, because I bend towards my knitting, bend towards my computer monitor, and otherwise stress out my upper back and neck, my upper back gets cranky now and then.…
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I’m pretty much unable to draw, though I doodle a lot when I’m thinking. Photography has been my visual outlet, and I’ve long loved taking photographs and sharing photographs with friends and family. It took me a long time to give up my film camera, but when I converted to digital, it was permanent and…
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We had a lovely, wonderful, amazing, restful trip to Hawaii in March. The one thing I noticed, though, was that wireless internet was ubiquitous. Even at our sweet secluded little B&B near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hale Ohia). I suppose the problem isn’t that there was wireless internet, the problem was that I was using…