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Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal…

Thoughts and Musings

“Simplify, simplify, simplify,” penned the great Ralph Waldo Emerson in Walden.  It’s taken me four years of re-reading his book to get the irony behind that phrase:  If living what…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Little Friend has officially discovered photographs.  She alternately carries around and loses a wallet print of Big Friend and I mugging for the camera at our wedding.  She screeches “Daaaa”…

Kids and Treasures

There.  I said it.  I am a runner.  I really have a hard time getting that sentence out.  I was the high school girl who spent more time nursing her…

Thoughts and Musings

Thoughts

{Today’s post is the first in a two-part series.  I’ve recently become a veritable card-carrying member of the Real Food revolution—think local, farm fresh foods prepared in traditional methods—and want…

Kids and Treasures Wanderings and Travel