Reading Laurie Ricou’s Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory, I find this quotation from poet and essayist Kim Stafford’s book The Muses Among Us: “coherence is born of random abundance” (31). Random abundance! I love…
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Out for a run after posting about my paintingsyesterday, I started thinking about a couple of smaller marine paintings we bought years ago while living in Prince Rupert. We gave one as a wedding gift…
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I’m so enjoying the comments on my post about food memoriesthat I’m a bit reluctant to have something new here potentially shutting down that conversation. Please, if you haven’t commented there yet and have a…
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Apropos of wanting what I have, I am so enjoying the simplicity of steel-cut oats, brought to a boil and then simmered in salted water for 15 or 20 minutes, served with milk and a…
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Happy Birthday to my lovely daughter, Rhiannon, who besides looking very good in hats is also feisty, smart, sensitive, thoughtful, funny, loyal, and often fierce! Rhiannon often reminds me (altho’ I don’t tell her so…
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