Reflections in an Autumn Garden

 There have been enough words  about big life decisions  and we’ve started a wonderfully rich conversation about the approach to retirement. Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement and understanding — if…

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Weekend Gratitude. . . In the Garden

Do you know that great Steve Earle song, “Coming Around,”the one he recorded with Emmylou Harris and sings with his wife-at-the-time Allison Moorer in this YouTube video? (Paul and I were lucky enough to see them…

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Un après-midi, au jardin. . .

Just one small red Japanese maple  and some late afternoon sunlight.  And warmth  and birdsong (which you, sadly, can’t hear in these photos even if I can remember it clearly)  and the honeyed fragrance of…

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Garden Retreat

 I’ll be in one of those long meetings most of the day, the kind I hate calling a “retreat,” because if I were really retreating, I’d be in my garden.  But let’s pretend, ‘kay? I’m…

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White Jeans, Again?

First, thank you so very much for all your warm encouragement on my marathon preparations. Only three more sleeps now. . . . And Second, I’m really enjoying these white jeans!  I’ve seen any number…

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