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Sep.17.2009
September 17
HATCHLING
When the shell gets too tight it’s time to hatch. I can’t tell you it’s safe out there, just that it’s time to go. The leaving is not easy. Exodus fulfilled by the use of one small tooth. This experience may or may not prepare you for the rest of your life, so much...
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Sep.02.2009
Some things, I have to say, are the same on the other side of the world. The sun often shines in a cerulean sky, mothers lovingly push babies in strollers, children wear bright backpacks to school, and harvesters gather ripe wheat before a rain. Somehow, living on the other side of the world from...
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Aug.23.2009
In the fall of 2005, I was at a crossroads in just about every part of my life. I have a vision of myself, sitting at the desk (a cracked, castoff table from my former home), looking out at the front yard of my rental house. I was talking to another agent, an agent not my own.
I'd left my...
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Aug.20.2009
Nature is always a great example for us, our world as model. I wonder why we forget to look outside every day and just see how to live. It's pretty damn simple. Find yourself alive and try to stay that way until it ends. Do what you can to support that life. Avoid predators, find nutrients,...
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Aug.12.2009
August 12
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS DUCK?
This duck looks fine sitting on the edge, the rubber face frozen in a permanent grin. The appearance is flawless as long as it is not called to duty; no one will ever know. Stay still. Don’t jump. When dropped in the water, this creature, born for the...
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Aug.06.2009
Last month, our family left our home of ten years in Ohio for Central Europe, where we will make our home for the next few years. Each of us, including my husband and our three school-aged sons, has gone through a different process of leaving, and we all have had areas of our lives where leaving...
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Jul.22.2009
For those of you who know me, or who have been following my blog for any small stretch of time, you are aware of the unique life circumstances that have come the way of our King family of five. We are now en route to Central Europe to begin our next adventure in life—a three year expat assignment...
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Jul.06.2009
Uzi and I spent the last weekend in Tucson at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) annual conference. What an extremely interesting group of people. I first heard of them a few months ago when I went to a symposium in Malibu about honeybees--possible research for my next book--that was...
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Jun.29.2009
June 29
HEAT EXCHANGE
I stand in the shower and let the water run. The water carries away my temperature in exchange for its own. I leave the enclosure restored. Mentally, a meeting does this for me. I change hot topics for more moderate positions, cold indifference for warm regard. ...
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Jun.19.2009
I am a proponent of all types of media. In my life, I've subscribed to all sorts of media: newspapers, book-of-the-month clubs, magazines, Netflix, journals. I've bought probably as many books as all of you reading this have, most of us able to fill our own libraries to the brim a few times over...
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