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An "X"pat from Twitter. Lover of nature, pets, history, vintage films, illustration, wise old words, & golden-age whodunits. I mostly skulk about here for political news & commentary.
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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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“You cannot be great without the greatness of others.” - Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni after winning Super Bowl VIX.

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Oslea Ridge at blue hour December 2024

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Wild Horses • Camargue (2024)

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Not far from where we all live is a magical entrance to a land of enchantment: our public library. In Cerritos, California this is literal truth...

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“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.” ~ Crazy Horse, Tasunké Witko-(1841-1877)

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Thinking about the loss of visionary director David Lynch I was reminded of a poem we read in college. The poet celebrated differences, peculiarities, the crazy quilt of the natural landscape. Wherever he found "dappled things" he saw evidence of the divine...

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C.S. Lewis often speaks to my condition...

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The "in-between" days after Christmas and before New Years cast a strange magic over me. Until I hear the firecrackers of New Year's Eve I'm never quite sure what day it is. Like in the "snow ball" pictured below, the dancers, the music, time itself is frozen during these spellbound days.

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Odd that in this season of peace & goodwill my stack of Christmas murder mysteries keeps getting higher. This sub genre with its COZY, WINTRY COVERS, the country house crime scenes festooned with garlands--I'm addicted to it. The shelf below is not mine but I own every book pictured & then some!

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I haven't re-read many books but "The Secret Garden" and "Lost Horizon" top that very short list. And they share a premise: their lead characters both stumble upon secret places; a hidden valley, a forgotten garden. Adventure & enchantment fill their mysterious pages...

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Among novelists from the past I wished I'd known, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) comes to mind.

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My first post: A message I have yet to learn. (Illus. by N.C. Wyeth from "The Yearling")

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