birthday

  • Today is my birthday…

    …and Davi gave me this card: Which made me laugh, and also reminded me that on Thursday, I answered a question from another friend who suggested I might be like Mr. Peabody, who looks like this: I know that such synchronicities are supposed to be significant, but I just don’t see the resemblance, myself.  … Continue reading

  • 80

    My mom and her twin are eighty years old today — both going strong and in excellent health.  Nearly eighty people celebrated with them at a gathering last week.  Both are ‘Sis’; both are ‘Mom’; both are ‘Grandma’.  Think what they have seen in their lives — electricity, automobiles, indoor plumbing, air travel, telephones, washing… Continue reading

  • 56 Today

    at the altar an old woman counting breaths Fred’s Challenge (inspired by Time Goes By):  Find ten photographs of you at different ages, up to the present. Make a Time Travel Montage and post it or a link to it on your weblog . . .  a great way to show the persistence of that… Continue reading

  • june 6, the last spring,first summer day this year

    the river has stopped rising       trees are in it up to their hips            there are no islands anywhere                 only birch and aspen swaying                       in water     their hair     a shimmer of green and yellow… Continue reading