Tag: reflections
group name: journalmoments
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May 29, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
As everyone on Gather might know, I am not a shopper. I rarely go into stores. You will not find me at the mall on a rainy day window shopping nor at the grocery store on a Saturday morn. . . . more
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November 18, 2007 12:37 PM EST --
I awoke early this morning, perhaps around four and silently went down the stairs in stocking feet. Going into the computer room, I brought up Gather and read my private emails. Then off . . . more
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October 21, 2007 11:11 PM EDT --
I live in a small, rural town in southeast Massachusetts...it is the town I grew up in and the town I returned to when my wandering days were over. Less then a half mile up the street is . . . more
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October 23, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
On Sunday my sister Fran stopped by with a gift for me. Knowing I love to journal and knowing I love Henry David Thoreau, she brought me a new book, "All Nature is My Bride: Passages . . . more
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January 03, 2008 09:06 PM EST --
The other day my sister gave me a gift. No, it wasn't wrapped up in holiday paper nor tied with a bow; but rather the gift of a day to ramble in a land I did not know. Being four years older, Fran . . . more
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March 28, 2008 01:20 AM EDT --
It's been a while since I've written something here.
It's been a while since I've talked to some people I have been out of touch with.
It's been a while since I was active . . . more
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December 23, 2007 08:00 PM EST --
Friday was the last day of school before the winter recess. It was a very busy day with gift-opening, a party, and then to finish off the day the children performed a Concert singing holiday songs to . . . more
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December 16, 2007 06:55 PM EST --
With colored markers
and white foam board
my wee ones fashion
a planet, colorful and round
Not knowing distance nor continents
They draw in green and . . . more
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June 20, 2008 06:53 AM EDT --
Barbary Chaapel wrote an article This is How Love Looks yesterday and I couldn't help but agree with her thoughts. Love does start first with just a bud and as time goes by blossoms into . . . more
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June 11, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
A week ago Sunday I went on a Preview Visit to Franklin Park Zoo in Boston with my cousin Terry and his friend Gino in preparation for two class trips with my young kindergardeners. Last Monday . . . more
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June 13, 2008 06:42 AM EDT --
Last Monday Papa had agreed to babysit Sage while Sage's Mom Lena went to the Zoo as a chaperone with Julia's kindergarten class. Because I have a Baker's cyst on my left leg I was fortunate . . . more
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August 02, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
" When you set out for Ithaka
Ask that your way be long,
Full of adventure, full of instruction."
~C.P. Cavafy~
"Tricia, how are you ever going to see a bobcat in the wild if . . . more
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June 10, 2008 06:37 AM EDT --
A week ago Sunday I went to Franklin Park Zoo in Boston to preview the place before going to the zoo with my AM class on Monday and my P.M class on Wednesday. Although the Monday trip went off without . . . more
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December 16, 2007 10:28 AM EST --
This is perhaps our first true winter walk
One down by the edge of the reservoir
There is a softer music now
on the wide swarth of the bog
Which the wind draws from the forest. . . . more
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May 28, 2008 11:54 PM EDT --
He passed on May 11, Mother's Day. This is a hard one for me and my family as Branden was so personalized to us. He traveled with me on trips to see my family who live in other . . . more
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January 01, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
A ramble through
unchartered woods
to a path overgrown
with brambles and thorns
and crusty moss covered rocks,
To a cabin in . . . more
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June 21, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
We had the day all planned. Friday we would meet at the Indian (rest area in Plymouth) on Route #3 and go to White Horse Beach in Plymouth. Last week, Alyssa (Fran's granddaughter) had . . . more
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June 24, 2008 05:58 AM EDT --
Gently she bent down
and extended her hand
to the ground and with
her gnarled fingers that
had seen many years
picked a rose petal that
had fallen and I could
not help but think that
she . . . more
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December 31, 2007 10:49 AM EST --
My back was shining in the sun
A resurrection you might say
Am I but a shadow on a rock
This crisp, cold December day?
. . . more
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July 30, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
"Over and above all else, the story of mountaineering is a story of faith and affirmation - that the high road is the good road; that there are still among us those who are willing to struggle . . . more
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