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Dec 3, 2009, 2:09 am
December Rose
Raised by late sun,
awakened from chilled slumber,
it kept to the mother stalk
out in the hard moldy garden
'til plucked
and placed in the crystal vase
that... Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2009, 2:55 am
I think Kauhava, Finland, may be my paternal grandmother Lydia's girlhood home, possibly her birthplace. This old postcard is among the few from her collection that are in my possession. She proba... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 2:08 am
Over the weekend Kristen at The Goat posted this video and it would be impossible for me not to share it here because it has quickly become my favorite youtube video ever. Kristen improved upon the vi... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2009, 3:37 am
In my post yesterday about a long-forgotten print-and-radio cooking guru I promised to share the FOREWORD of the 1935 cookbook Ida Bailey Allen's Modern Cookbook 2500 recipes. Her book foreword is... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 4:21 am
We continued our tradition of enjoying Thanksgiving buffet dinner at Silver Falls Conference Center, so I don't have leftovers to deal with until I actually do make our home-cooked turkey dinner o... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 3:59 am
From Love Isn't Enough, an excellent blog about parenting and race, I found this post titled, Ask ARP (Anti-Racist Parent): Why Can't Non-Native Children Dress Up Like Indians? Wow. It&#... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 3:03 am
{Play the piano by clicking on the keys}
Piano
~by D. H. Lawrence
SOFTLY, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitti... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 7:04 am
"Sheyit, I see something that looks exactly like that every night when I take a bath."
-- my former mother-in-law, who shall remain nameless here, when addressing a beard-wearing friend of he... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 2:53 am
In this old postcard the San Francisco (San Francisco-Oakland) Bay Bridge is noted as the longest bridge in the world. It is not that any longer (pun intended). At a website titled Ten Longest Bridges... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 5:09 pm
Phivos at the Travelling blog treated me to this video in my email inbox this morning. He's such a good and fun blogging friend! His blog lifts my spirits and gives me positive wanderlust on a dai... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 2:54 am
Podcast by Les AuCoin: Bring Them Home
Clicking on the link above (and the photo also) will take you to a powerful and beautifully-produced video and short written commentary that left me w... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:24 am
The handwriting is my mother's notation describing the soldier pictured on this old photo postcard. He was her cousin, Hewitt Swearingen, who died in action in France during WWI. She was an infant... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 3:16 am
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-Stephen Nachmanovich Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 12:02 am
Jarad Ratliff, artist, added this note to his video: There was an old TV show named "Johnny Yuma." & Johnny Cash sang this song, as the theme song.
He is right. I barely remember the TV show b... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2009, 3:00 am
THE NEW TRANSLATION
-by Sergeant Thomas N. Wilkes, U.S.A.
The touch and go of the wilderness, the long land
That is my home is whet to my desire.
Massive my vista, and clear as the evening ... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2009, 6:32 am
Postcards
- by Margaret Atwood
I'm thinking about you. What else can I say?
The palm trees on the reverse
are a delusion; so is the pink sand.
What we have are the usual
fracture... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 10:19 pm
I came across this historic video some weeks ago when I was doing research for Old Postcard Wednesday and a postcard featuring the Claremont Inn. It appears that the former inn and The Claremont Theat... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 2:58 am
Happy Halloween, everyone.
This outstanding-in-its-field scarecrow is along the country road about eight miles from Silverton. I took the shot on my way home from my solo beach trip a few weeks a... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 6:43 am
I've had a good time this month posting songs my mother taught me as a tribute to her. Now I'm down to the final two days of the month (and, yes, I actually do have one for Halloween) with one... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 2:00 am
There probably aren't many women who were little girls in the 1950s who didn't learn this song, and I'd venture to guess that most learned it from their mothers.....or at least sang it wit... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 3:03 am
Glocca Morra is a fictional Irish village that seems very real in the play and movie, Finian's Rainbow. The Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War was all too real, the horror of which we might onl... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 5:19 am
... My love for classical music and opera (adored by her father) was not passed from my mom to me, was developed on my own. It was interesting to share that appreciation with her after she retired an... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2009, 4:10 am
{This is the 11th in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.}
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Oct 22, 2009, 4:43 am
{This is the eighth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.}
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Oct 21, 2009, 3:00 am
This postcard was purchased either in the mid-1960s when our family visited the area, or in the early-1970s when my mother was there alone. Both short trips were pilgrimages for her back to Trinity Co... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 3:08 pm
{This is the sixth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the fir... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 2:27 am
{This is the fifth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.}
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Oct 14, 2009, 5:05 am
This postcard may be rare. It is one of the oldest in my grandmother's collection; her New York postcards were separated from the others and must have been special mementos from when the family li... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 5:25 am
{This is the fourth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.}
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Oct 11, 2009, 3:05 am
{This is the third in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.}
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Oct 8, 2009, 8:42 pm
A friend (left) with my mother (right) at Lawton's Hot Springs
In this month that has become an annual remembrance of my mother for me -- she died in October 2000 -- songs are in my head. ... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2009, 2:09 am
Then
Now
Review at yelp.com, dated 4/2/2000, of the Municipal Auditorium, by Sean O., aka "K.C. kid living in D.C."
This magnificent building is sort of like the Radio Ci... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2009, 6:07 am
Willow
- by 李商隱 Lǐ Shāngyǐn (812-858)
Boundless the leaves roused by spring,
Countless the twigs which tremble in the dawn.
Whether the willow can love or not,
Never... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2009, 4:18 am
It was at this turn that my parents, abandoning hope of the garden, moved us away from its outskirts forever. Twice daily my father rode on a trolley car that groaned to a stop at every other corner b... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2009, 4:54 am
(Menus from Mable's Scrapbook. Click images to enlarge.)
Passenger train graphic by abkl designs
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Sep 30, 2009, 3:34 am
"The driving force behind the San Francisco cable car system came from a man who witnessed a horrible accident on a typically damp summer day in 1869. Andrew Smith Hallidie saw the toll slippery grade... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 4:48 am
I love the wind in the desert. It's strong outside on the Alvord now, and it makes my Fields Motel room cozy and a secure place to be with a great book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which I ... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 4:21 am
My previous post was full of excitement that we were seeing La Boheme in Portland on Sunday. The opera was marvelous! It was so good to be back, and we won't let years pass again before our next o... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2009, 3:21 am
Posted using ShareThis
photo of "the young and vibrant cast" of Portland Opera's production of La Boheme.
interview with cast members by sponsoring radio station kink.fm - OPERA You Can LOVE... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 4:59 am
Now when on Earth would I ever post a picture taken in front of a Nevada brothel except as a loose follow-up to my previous post titled cathouses? The answer is likely never so take a little trip into... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 3:23 am
To the cat, the experimenter is problematic.
- quote found at kessels.com
When my sister and I were children we made a pact that we would never marry when we grew up. Instead, we would l... Comment - Like
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