tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69815299622237544032024-02-07T18:12:13.614-08:00Lake LifeIf I ever go looking for my heart's desire again... I shouldn't look any farther than my own backyard. Dorothy, OzBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-76576399649587078042015-03-21T11:13:00.003-07:002015-03-21T11:13:49.162-07:00Finally, new flooring. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Took me about three years to settle on a product but only two days for installers to rip out the old carpeting and get it in. I will paint base boards the same Ben Moore Classic Gray as the wainscoting this summer and Daryl will install when it makes more sense to have doors open and running in and out. </div>
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Transition from dining room to kitchen, makes the Marmoleum look like a bad idea. </div>
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From the front door, planks are laid in same horizontal direction as front porch boards and back deck boards. <br />
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Hallway going to bathroom which is vinyl and spare room which is carpeted. Need to fix that! <br />
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Still sleeping on the floor, will take three of us to get the platform attached, waiting for Daryl to return home. Notice the excellent installation Rusty did of aligning bedroom planks with living room planks. Genius man! <br />
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Most of the floor surface in the bedroom is covered with wool area rug. <br />
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Don't normally have a table in the kitchen but the laundry room is dismantled for new washer/dryer installation today. Picture is just showing Marmoleum loses it's appeal next to Mannington Restoration Collection Black Forest Oak Antiqued. <br />
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Quarter sawn oak with espresso wash cabinets in kitchen will not look good with any dark wood flooring, and would be too dark and overwhelming with nearly any wood or laminate flooring choice. And I just don't like the maples, cherry, light oak finishes for floors. So, next plan is to get the gray wash laminate installed in the kitchen. <br />
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Hall bath with marble top vanity, white wainscoting and vinyl flooring, which, when I close my eyes I can envision is penny tile and looks great! <br />
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Master bath from laundry room: cherry cabinet with vinyl flooring, would look better with this same new laminate, which the laundry room will eventually be. Just can't find any sales person or installer who says it's a good idea... <br />
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<br />Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-83018576897201012222013-07-27T10:29:00.002-07:002013-07-27T10:29:30.683-07:00Everything I Want<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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particularly when the sun<br />
is making such a comeback,<br />
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and the lilac engorged<br />
with purple has recovered<br />
from its severe pruning,<br />
and you will be back soon<br />
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to dispel whatever it is<br />
that overtakes me like leaf blight,<br />
even on a day like this. I can still<br />
hear remnants of the rain<br />
<br />
in the swollen stream<br />
behind the house, in the faint<br />
dripping under the eaves,<br />
persistent as memory.<br />
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And all the things I didn't think<br />
I wanted, cut like the lilac back<br />
to the root, push up again<br />
from underground. <br />
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After a Month of Rain, Linda Pastan</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-82428660580548352452013-07-27T09:52:00.000-07:002013-07-27T09:52:43.677-07:00My Driveway is the End of the Rainbow!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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a terrific urge to lie in bed all day<br />
and read. Fought against it for a minute.<br />
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Then looked out the window at the rain.<br />
And gave over. Put myself entirely <br />
in the keep of this rainy morning.<br />
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Would I live my life over again?<br />
Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?<br />
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
Rain, Raymond Carver
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-72151534703499823512013-07-24T17:53:00.000-07:002013-07-27T10:28:28.719-07:00Shades of PurpleRain-glaze on snow. Mud and ice and snow.<br />
Coyotes feed themselves on gaunt dreams of spring. Then<br />
what comes slowly suddenly he sees.<br />
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Light hovers longer in the southern sky.<br />
Brooks uncover themselves. Alders redden.<br />
Grosbeaks' beaks turn green. Chickadee finds the song<br />
he lost last November, and blue jay abandons<br />
argument and gluttony. He cranes his neck,<br />
bobs his mitered head; he bounces on a naked branch<br />
crying: Spring!<br />
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But, like all winter's keepers<br />
he speaks his dream before<br />
he sees the fact.<br />
Did you hear a phoebe?<br />
And he out again and walking on the earth,<br />
in the air, in the sun, ankle deep in mud.<br />
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March, David Budbill<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-28611888452230240532013-07-24T17:44:00.001-07:002013-07-24T17:53:15.723-07:00Sun Falling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I wish that there were some wonderful place</div>
In the Land of Beginning Again.<br />
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches<br />
And all of our poor selfish grief<br />
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door<br />
and never put on again.<br />
I wish we could come on it all unaware,<br />
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;<br />
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done<br />
The greatest injustice of all<br />
Could be there at the gates<br />
like an old friend that waits<br />
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.<br />
We would find all the things we intended to do<br />
But forgot, and remembered too late,<br />
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken,<br />
And all the thousand and one<br />
Little duties neglected that might have perfected<br />
The day for one less fortunate.<br />
It wouldn't be possible not to be kind<br />
In the Land of Beginning Again,<br />
And the ones we misjudged<br />
and the ones whom we grudged<br />
their moments of victory here,<br />
Would find in the grasp of our loving hand-clasp<br />
More than penitent lips could explain...<br />
So I wish that there were some wonderful place<br />
Called the Land of Beginning Again,<br />
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,<br />
And all of our poor selfish grief<br />
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door<br />
And never put on again. The Land of Beginning Again, Louisa Fletcher <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-84252244752584261262013-07-24T17:30:00.000-07:002013-07-24T17:53:29.085-07:00Manning ParkEach night you come home with five continents on your hands:<br />
garlic, olive oil, saffron, anise, coriander, tea,<br />
your fingernails blackened with a marjoram and thyme.<br />
Sometimes the zucchini's flesh seems like a fish-steak,<br />
cut into neat filets, or the salt-rubbed eggplant<br />
yields not bitter water, but dark mystery.<br />
You cut everything into bits.<br />
No core, no kernel, no seed is scared: you cut<br />
onions for hours and do not cry,<br />
cut them to thin transparencies, the red ones<br />
spreading before you like fallen flowers;<br />
you cut scallions from white to green, you cut<br />
radishes, apples, broccoli, you cut oranges, watercress,<br />
romaine, you cut your fingers, you cut and cut<br />
beyond the heart of things, where<br />
nothing remains, and you cut that too, scoring coup<br />
on the butcherblock, leaving your mark,<br />
when you go <br />
your feet are as pounded as brioche dough. <br />
Cook, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f7f4; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font: 13px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Jane Hirshfield</span><br />
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I never will have time enough</div>
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How beautiful it is</div>
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The way the moon</div>
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As easily</div>
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And lightly as a bird</div>
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Although she is a world</div>
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Made all of stone.</div>
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To praise</div>
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The way the stars</div>
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Hang glittering in the dark</div>
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Of steepest heaven</div>
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Their dewy sparks</div>
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Their brimming drops of light</div>
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So fresh so clear</div>
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That when you look at them</div>
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It quenches thirst.</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-2969651232126377382013-07-22T22:52:00.001-07:002013-07-22T22:52:41.897-07:00Advice To Myself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator</div>
and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.<br />
Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.<br />
Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.<br />
Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.<br />
Don't even sew on a button.<br />
Let the wind have its way, then the earth<br />
that invades as dust and then the dead<br />
foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.<br />
Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.<br />
Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles<br />
or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry<br />
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything<br />
matches, at all.<br />
Except one word to another. Or a thought.<br />
Pursue the authentic—decide first<br />
what is authentic,<br />
then go after it with all your heart.<br />
Your heart, that place<br />
you don't even think of cleaning out.<br />
That closet stuffed with savage mementos.<br />
Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth<br />
or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner<br />
again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,<br />
or weep over anything at all that breaks.<br />
Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons<br />
in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life<br />
and talk to the dead<br />
who drift in through the screened windows, who collect<br />
patiently on the tops of food jars and books.<br />
Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything<br />
except what destroys<br />
the insulation between yourself and your experience<br />
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters<br />
this ruse you call necessity.
Advice To Myself, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f7f4; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font: 13px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Louise Erdrich</span>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-65534413859559603682013-07-22T22:45:00.000-07:002013-07-23T10:28:16.662-07:00To Deserve What We've Been Given<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We live like this: no one but</div>
some of the owls awake, and of them<br />
only near ones really awake.<br />
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In the rain yesterday, puddles<br />
on the walk to the barn sounded their<br />
quick little drinks.<br />
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The edge of the haymow, all<br />
soaked in moonlight,<br />
dreams out there like silver music.<br />
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Are there farms like this where<br />
no one likes to live?<br />
And the sky going everywhere?<br />
<br />
While the earth breaks the soft horizon<br />
eastward, we study how to deserve<br />
what has already been given us.<br />
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Love in The Country, William Stafford<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-22779988888255295042013-07-22T22:30:00.001-07:002013-07-23T10:28:44.679-07:00It's all right if we do nothing tonight...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I am so much in love with mournful music</div>
That I don't bother to look for violinists.<br />
The aging peepers satisfy me for hours.<br />
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The ant moves on his tiny Sephardic feet.<br />
The flute is always glad to repeat the same note.<br />
The ocean rejoices in its dusky mansion.<br />
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Bears are often piled up close to each other.<br />
In caves of bears, it's just one hump<br />
After another, and there is no one to sort it out.<br />
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You and I have spent so many hours working.<br />
We have paid dearly for the life we have.<br />
It's all right if we do nothing tonight.<br />
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We've heard the fiddlers tuning their old fiddles,<br />
And the singer urging the low notes to come.<br />
We've heard her trying to keep the dawn from breaking.<br />
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There is some slowness in life that is right for us.<br />
But we love to remember the way the soul leaps<br />
Over and over into the lonely heavens. The Frogs After Dog, Robert Bly <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-7733043653795880502013-07-22T22:17:00.002-07:002013-07-23T10:07:52.552-07:00Birds of A Different Feather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This morning</div>
the beautiful white heron<br />
was floating along above the water<br />
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and then into the sky of this<br />
the one world<br />
we all belong to<br />
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where everything<br />
sooner or later<br />
is a part of everything else<br />
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which thought made me feel<br />
for a little while<br />
quite beautiful myself. <br />
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Poem Of One World, Mary Oliver <br />
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When I lived in the foothills</div>
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birds flocked to the feeder:</div>
house finches, goldfinches,<br />
skyblue lazuli buntings,<br />
impeccably dressed chickadees,<br />
sparrows in work clothes, even<br />
hummingbirds fastforwarding<br />
through the trees. Some of them<br />
disappeared after a week, headed<br />
north, I thought, with the sun.<br />
But the first cool day<br />
they were back, then gone,<br />
then back, more reliable<br />
than weathermen, and I realized<br />
they hadn't gone north at all,<br />
but up the mountain, as invisible<br />
to me as if they had flown<br />
a thousand miles, yet in reality<br />
just out of sight, out of reach—<br />
maybe at the end of our lives<br />
the world lifts that slightly<br />
away from us, and returns once<br />
or twice to see if we've refilled<br />
the feeder, if we still remember it,<br />
or if we've taken leave<br />
of our senses altogether.<br />
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The Underworld, Sharon Bryan<br />
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We Can't figure it out!</td></tr>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-62519417957719623592013-07-22T20:31:00.000-07:002013-07-27T09:42:19.338-07:00Winter Sunshine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Let go of the dead now.</div>
The rope in the water,<br />
the cleat on the cliff,<br />
do them no good anymore.<br />
Let them fall, sink, go away,<br />
become invisible as they tried<br />
so hard to do in their own dying.<br />
We needed to bother them<br />
with what we called help.<br />
We were the needy ones.<br />
The dying do their own work with<br />
tidiness, just the right speed,<br />
sometimes even a little<br />
satisfaction. So quiet down.<br />
Let them go. Practice<br />
your own song. Now. <br />
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Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back, Bill Holm <br />
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do</div>
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we have come to our real work,</div>
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and that when we no longer know which way to go</div>
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we have come to our real journey.</div>
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The mind that is not baffled is not employed.</div>
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The impeded stream is the one that sings.</div>
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The Real Work, Wendell Berry</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-44502314988286319972013-07-22T18:55:00.002-07:002013-07-23T10:34:07.605-07:00Birch Tree Enjoying Late Winter Sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Start with a tree,</div>
an old willow with its feet in the water,<br />
and one low branch to let you in<br />
and a higher branch to let you<br />
upstairs,<br />
and a lookout branch to show<br />
how far you've come<br />
(the lake before you,<br />
the woods at your back),<br />
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and now you are close<br />
to those who live in these rooms<br />
without walls, without doors:<br />
one nuthatch typing its way up the bark,<br />
two mourning doves calling the sun out of darkness,<br />
three blackbirds folding their wings tipped with sunset,<br />
twelve crows threading the air and stitching<br />
a cape that whirls them away<br />
through the empty sky,<br />
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and don't forget the blue heron<br />
stalking the shallows for bluegills,<br />
and don't forget the otter backpaddling past you,<br />
and the turtles perched on the log like shoes<br />
lined up each night in a large family,<br />
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and don't forget the owl<br />
who has watched over you<br />
since you were born.<br />
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Be the housekeeper of trees,<br />
who have nothing to keep<br />
except silence. Tree House, Nancy Willard <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-72068232281143785102013-07-22T18:32:00.001-07:002013-07-23T10:33:42.268-07:00Winter Moon Rising<div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
“Because we do not know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood Some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't conceive of your life with out it. Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.” </div>
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― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-43804470057602810282013-07-22T18:26:00.000-07:002013-07-23T10:33:14.309-07:00Sails in a Storm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
When my blood runs warm with the warm red wine</div>
I miss the life that I left behind<br />
But when I hear the sound of the blackbirds cry<br />
I know I left in the nick of time<br />
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Well this road I'm on's gonna turn to sand<br />
And leave me lost in a far off land<br />
So let me ride the wind til I don't look back<br />
Forget the life that I almost had<br />
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If I wander til I die<br />
May I know who's hand I'm in<br />
If my home I'll never find<br />
And let me live again<br />
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The longer I run<br />
Then the less that I find<br />
Sellin my soul for a nickel and dime<br />
Breakin my heart to keep singing these rhymes<br />
And losin again<br />
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Tell my brother please not to look for me<br />
I ain't the man that I used to be<br />
But if my savior comes could you let him know<br />
I've gone away for to save my soul<br />
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The Longer I Run, Peter Bradley Adams<br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-42335383415223331122013-07-22T18:13:00.001-07:002013-07-23T10:32:19.896-07:00Winter Blooming Heather (and her friends)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Things I Didn't Know I Loved</div>
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I always knew I loved the sky,</div>
the way it seems solid and insubstantial at the same time;<br />
the way it disappears above us<br />
even as we pursue it in a climbing plane,<br />
like wishes or answers to certain questions—always out of reach;<br />
the way it embodies blue,<br />
even when it is gray.<br />
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But I didn't know I loved the clouds,<br />
those shaggy eyebrows glowering<br />
over the face of the sun.<br />
Perhaps I only love the strange shapes clouds can take,<br />
as if they are sketches by an artist<br />
who keeps changing her mind.<br />
Perhaps I love their deceptive softness,<br />
like a bosom I'd like to rest my head against<br />
but never can.<br />
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And I know I love the grass, even as I am cutting it as short<br />
as the hair on my grandson's newly barbered head.<br />
I love the way the smell of grass can fill my nostrils<br />
with intimations of youth and lust;<br />
the way it stains my handkerchief with meanings<br />
that never wash out.<br />
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Sometimes I love the rain, staccato on the roof,<br />
and always the snow when I am inside looking out<br />
at the blurring around the edges of parked cars<br />
and trees. And I love trees,<br />
in winter when their austere shapes<br />
are like the cutout silhouettes artists sell at fairs<br />
and in May when their branches<br />
are fuzzy with growth, the leaves poking out<br />
like new green horns on a young deer.<br />
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But how about the sound of trains,<br />
those drawn-out whistles of longing in the night,<br />
like coyotes made of steam and steel, no color at all,<br />
reminding me of prisoners on chain gangs I've only seen<br />
in movies, defeated men hammering spikes into rails,<br />
the burly guards watching over them?<br />
<br />
Those whistles give loneliness and departure a voice.<br />
It is the kind of loneliness I can take in my arms, tasting <br />
of tears that comfort even as they burn, dampening the pillows <br />
and all the feathers of all the geese who were plucked to fill<br />
them.<br />
<br />
Perhaps I embrace the music of departure—song without lyrics,<br />
so I can learn to love it, though I don't love it now.<br />
For at the end of the story, when sky and clouds and grass,<br />
and even you my love of so many years,<br />
have almost disappeared,<br />
it will be all there is left to love. Linda Pastan <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-27013597907746105032013-07-22T14:02:00.003-07:002013-07-23T10:30:53.015-07:00Winter Buds<div align="center">
You spend so much of your time</div>
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expecting to become</div>
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someone else</div>
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always someone</div>
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who will be different</div>
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someone to whom a moment</div>
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whatever moment it may be</div>
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at last has come</div>
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and who has been</div>
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met and transformed</div>
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into no longer being you</div>
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and so has forgotten you</div>
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meanwhile in your life</div>
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you hardly notice</div>
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the world around you</div>
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lights changing</div>
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sirens dying along the buildings</div>
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your eyes intent</div>
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on a sight you do not see yet</div>
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not yet there</div>
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as long as you</div>
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are only yourself </div>
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with whom as you</div>
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recall you were</div>
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never happy</div>
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to be left alone for long </div>
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To Waiting, W.S. Merwin</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-15471287008235199112013-07-22T11:44:00.001-07:002013-07-23T10:30:28.845-07:00Snowy HillsYou are there.<br />
You have always been<br />
there.<br />
Even when you thought<br />
you were climbing <br />
you had already arrived.<br />
Even when you were<br />
breathing hard,<br />
you were at rest.<br />
Even then it was clear<br />
you were there.<br />
Not in our nature<br />
to know what<br />
is journey and what<br />
arrival.<br />
Even if we knew<br />
we would not admit.<br />
Even if we lived<br />
we would think<br />
we were just<br />
germinating.<br />
To live is to be<br />
uncertain.<br />
Certainty comes<br />
at the end. <br />
<br />
You Are There, Erica Jong <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-38548317014675769712013-07-22T11:37:00.001-07:002013-07-23T10:29:46.504-07:00Winter's DuskLook, the trees<br />
are turning<br />
their own bodies<br />
into pillars<br />
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of light,<br />
are giving off the rich<br />
fragrance of cinnamon<br />
and fulfillment,<br />
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the long tapers<br />
of cattails<br />
are bursting and floating away over<br />
the blue shoulders<br />
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of the ponds,<br />
and every pond,<br />
no matter what its<br />
name is, is<br />
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nameless now.<br />
Every year<br />
everything<br />
I have ever learned<br />
<br />
in my lifetime<br />
leads back to this: the fires<br />
and the black river of loss<br />
whose other side<br />
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is salvation,<br />
whose meaning<br />
none of us will ever know.<br />
To live in this world<br />
<br />
you must be able<br />
to do three things:<br />
to love what is mortal;<br />
to hold it<br />
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against your bones knowing<br />
your own life depends on it;<br />
and, when the time comes to let it go,<br />
to let it go. <br />
In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver <br />
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-41218972530385434882013-07-22T11:27:00.000-07:002013-07-22T11:27:15.467-07:00A very long time outSince starting nursing school, pleasant hobbies, such as this blog, have fallen to the bottom of my priority list. I'm not sure that trading pleasant hobbies for a 4.0 in nursing school is worth it, but I'll know in just a few short months. For now, a quick updating is ordered, stat!<br />
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The Secret of Life<br />
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on a bus going to Portsmouth</div>
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a navy yard worker</div>
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The secret of life, he said,</div>
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can never be passed down</div>
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one generation to the other.</div>
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The secret of life, he said,</div>
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is hunger. It makes an open hand.</div>
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The secret of life is money.</div>
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But only the small coins.</div>
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The secret of life, he said,</div>
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is love. You become what you lose.</div>
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The secret of life, he said,</div>
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is water. The world will end</div>
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in flood.</div>
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The secret of life, he said,</div>
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is circumstance.</div>
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If you catch the right bus</div>
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at the right time</div>
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you will sit next</div>
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to the secret teller</div>
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who will whisper it</div>
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in your ear.
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Diana Der-Hovanessian, The Secret of Life
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622860011539257361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981529962223754403.post-69871896149344743552012-02-08T09:53:00.000-08:002012-02-08T16:32:28.194-08:00Opportuni"tree"Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long<br />
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station<br />
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep. <br />
<br />
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because<br />
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,<br />
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift<br />
into me, choking my lost heart. <br />
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Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;<br />
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.<br />
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,<br />
because in that moment you'll have gone so far<br />
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,<br />
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying? <br />
Pablo Neruda<br />
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I apologize that once again I'm not in love<br />
But it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking<br />
It's just a thought, only a thought<br />
<br />
But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy<br />
Well I deserve nothing more than I get<br />
'cause nothing I have is truly mine<br />
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I've always thought that I would love to live by the sea<br />
To travel the world alone and live more simply<br />
I have no idea what's happened to that dream<br />
'cause there's really nothing left here to stop me<br />
<br />
It's just a thought, only a thought<br />
But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy<br />
Well I deserve nothing more than I get<br />
'cause nothing I have is truly mine<br />
<br />
While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down<br />
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try<br />
Well how can I say I'm alive<br />
<br />
But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy<br />
Well I deserve nothing more than I get<br />
'cause nothing I have is truly mine.<br />
(Dido)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The neighbors wisely euthanized their old maple tree, which was becoming dangerous. We were all sad to know it was going to come down, but, such is the life of trees (and all living things...). And, we knew there were racoons in the neighborhood but I didn't realize they were living this close! A large family of racoons was evicted the morning the tree came down. I would have felt sorry for them except they are now squatting in one of <em>our</em> trees! Free racoon poop if anyone needs any! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It will be long ere the marshes resume, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It will be long ere the earliest bird:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So close the windows and not hear the wind,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But see all wind-stirred. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Robert Frost)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Impossible to see in photos, one of those times that you really "had to be there..." but I tried to snap pics of the swirling leaves and whirlwind pockets. It looked like the leaves were being torn off the branches, some invisible spirit shaking the neighborhood. And, it was loud! Photos don't work to show this, but, will at least remind me of it months from now. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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