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May.13.2012
‘Do not look for happiness in life. Life itself is happiness’....
From Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Magical Year of Reading by Nina Sankovitch.
This morning at the brink of waking, I felt my lips form a turned up semi circle. I smiled wide for no reason or perhaps it was because I was...
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May.08.2012
The birds sing--reach my senses
as a bouquet of yellow freesia and pink sweet peas.
I sit up in bed, look out the window and a bright light is beaming at me;
it is the moon. I sit up taller and it's as though the moon is merely feet
away from the trees below and speaks to me--whispers, here I am....
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May.06.2012
She is in their home; she is a guest. It is a Catholic home, very much like her grandmother’s, with images of The Virgin Mary, candles, angel statues, Mexican cooking wafting in the air.
A belated birthday celebration, it is a day of sunshine, laughter, and soap bubbles.
She is feeling hungry again...
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May.05.2012
I count a book as read the month I finish it. All the book versions were selected and finished in April, while the audio books took a couple of months, but were completed in April.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (2011) by Nina Sankovitch. In Nina Sankovitch’s memoir, she...
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May.05.2012
I had Friday off and was in need of a day to reenergize and follow the day where it led. The library was a must because I yearned to search the shelves and lose myself in the task of finding the next stack of books to bring home, since I had finished several books and was in need of more; none at...
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May.01.2012
I was browsing through the travel writing books on my Kindle before our trip and came across this title: Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip) (2011) by Dave Fox. The term Globejotting has a nice ring to it and is visual in an active way....
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Apr.30.2012
We had a really nice weekend trip to Portland, Oregon, this past weekend. Oddly enough, as much as I wanted sunshine a few weeks ago, I immediately missed the cool gray mornings that we left behind in Portland when we were back home. We did see blue skies, some drizzly rain, and sun, but I really...
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Apr.25.2012
Marbles spinanticipationcobalt and lavender silkraindrops inside.
Does everything always spin?
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Apr.24.2012
The last few times I’ve been at the laundry, I’ve especially noticed a few different younger couples and their approach. It seems that the women usually fall into a pattern of giving the men precise instructions while the men listen, rather than taking the lead, or expressing that they’ve got it....
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Apr.23.2012
I finally purchased and downloaded the Pages App for the iPad. It makes it much easier to edit documents, especially now that I also have a budget case with Bluetooth keyboard that makes typing on the iPad a better overall experience.
Tonight I prepared Beef Patties Chasseur with hand mashed...
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Apr.23.2012
Two lone images from childhood past: A little girl on a Japanese bridge; the other of a little girl in the crowd, a dragon, firecrackers, loud noises, colors, many people. The common factor in both images is of a mother in the foreground somewhere; or perhaps she is in the background, but her...
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Apr.19.2012
At the stop sign she sees an older couple.
The man is on the woman’s left, and with the subdued colors of his clothing, it seems he is the canvas for the woman—his beloved—in her turquoise shirt. She holds his right hand in her left as her right hand rests on her cane with firmness and grace. The...
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Apr.13.2012
The other day I made lentil soup only I didn’t add any seasonings other than salt and later other vegetables. I’ve come to accept that I like lentils best simmered in salted water with lots of garlic cloves.
When I began, I poured the lentils into the strainer to sift through and take out the...
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Apr.10.2012
Rain was forecast for Easter Sunday. It didn’t rain at all. Instead the air was warm, the sky—a soft blue with wisps of white clouds. Quiche Lorraine was a success, despite a small portion of the bottom edge of the crust burning. I could see it when I looked under the glass pie plate. I was happy...
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Apr.06.2012
This morningI would like to settle intoa large pot of warm polenta,slathered in butter.
Two evenings ago, for dinner, I made mushroom polenta pie from the Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites cookbook. I have had ready-made polenta rolled up and ready to cut, but found the texture coarse. As...
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About Rebbecca
I love to write, to express, to explore. Mostly I journal; and if something moves me, I try to capture it in a poem. I live in the East Bay; enjoy reading, writing, cooking; being in nature; walking; and riding my bike.
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Rebbecca’s Favorite Books
Demian, Siddhartha, The death of Ivan Ilyich, Barrabbas, Being Peace, Writing Down the Bones
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