The lovely ones

A wedding today–  So good and strange to see classmates and friends; we were all dressed up, in our finery.  I wore red lipstick, and thought about it too much, until I wiped it off so I could talk and think only of the people I was with.
The bride was luminous; the bride and groom [...]

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Lazy days

With summer, I’ve been able to finally catch my breath and do some…puttering.
Puttering is aimlessness, little projects that please no one else but me, time to write letters or dust, wandering morning walks.  Puttering can include cooking or shopping, but with no time frame.  Puttering certainly involves perusing used books, re-potting plants, re-framing photographs, daydreaming, [...]

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The inportance of pronouns

I have two classmates for whom “she” would once have been appropriate, for for whom “he” is now correct–in all ways correct, preferred, and proper.
For one, I struggle when speaking about him, and frequently use the wrong pronoun, even in thought.  For the second, I have always considered him “him,” and have never thought of [...]

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Stress

It’s been a long week.  The stone came loose in my engagement ring, so I haven’t been wearing it–how strange that now I feel very odd without it, after only wearing it four months.  My laptop is broken as well.  Many of my normal routines–my morning pattern, for example–have been disrupted by this.  Finally, I’m [...]

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