Tag: love
group name: outofthecity
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February 09, 2006 11:43 AM EST --
what is the essence of timelessness?
is it something that calls to us, repeatedly through the ages?
is it a restful thing, something to soothe the soul?
can it be personal, or is it always something . . .
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May 15, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --
{12 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
yesterday, for mother's day, we went down to my parents' farm. i've chronicled things i love there before, so this time i thought i'd share . . .
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July 28, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
{14 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
we went to grand haven last night,to swim in lake michigan (only a half-hour drive from grand rapids, where we had errands). this beach, just north of grand . . .
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February 20, 2006 02:59 PM EST --
my parents' home is an old victorian farmhouse, built in 1871. if you look across the road and down a bit, you can see half the hill removed - scraped away to make the bricks for this huge house.
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December 28, 2007 09:41 AM EST --
I read a large print book from the library recently that makes me feel as if I have found a small gold mine. The title is "A Land to Call Home" by Lauraine Snelling. I was well into the story . . .
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November 22, 2006 10:46 PM EST --
The family had all gathered for the last reading of the will... each piece of the man's life parceled and divied up... as his wife sat stone like in shock... listening to the lawyer reciting figures, . . .
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May 31, 2006 09:21 PM EDT --
{11 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
anyone living with a little kid knows that within any 24-hour period, there are many ups and downs. overall, lillie is an extremely happy child, for which . . .
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July 11, 2006 08:51 PM EDT --
we've had quite the contrasts in weather in the last 24 hours. last night, we had a golden peachy sunset. the sky was so pure and clear, and the golden glow just soaked everything.
tonight we . . .
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May 22, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
{12 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
on saturday, we went over to saugatuck, to visit with lake michigan. oh, this is one of my favorite places in the whole world. always, always, it gives . . .
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May 24, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
lillie - princess sea - had an amazing day today. such fun! when she wakes up, one of the first things out of her mouth is "can we play puppet show?" i swear we play puppet show for hours . . .
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May 29, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
{12 photos, for those gathering on dialup}
yesterday, we escaped from the weekenders at our lake and went to visit my parents at the farm. my parents just got back from germany - visiting friends - so . . .
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July 12, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Seems like I barely get back from one event when off I go to another. I returned from San Francisco and a few days later Bill and I headed off for a Monastic Institute held at Saint John's Abbey. . . .
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September 13, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
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when i think of the beauty of the change of seasons, i think of gorgeous orange yellow red fall leaves, the first fat snowflakes drifting down, tiny crocuses . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:22 AM EST --
right about now, you're probably feeling a little bit stressed - frazzled about shopping and cleaning and preparing for guests (or packing to go somewhere) or figuring out food for the multitude. . . .
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August 02, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
There's so much to say; yet, so little we've said.
We do not talk, you and I. There's that hush, the chill that surrounds the air we breathe. It used to be different, so very long ago. . . .
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September 01, 2009 02:03 PM EDT --
Summary of Summer
Well friends it's been a long time since I've written anything for Gather. Life has been a series of ups and downs but, as usual I've been able to muddle through. With . . .
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August 30, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
Living the rural life was always a popular event in the early days of expansion in these United States, but as the years have gone by, we have seen a decline of rural communities. In our own small town . . .
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May 16, 2006 10:10 PM EDT --
{12 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
thanks to candida's healing garden for the inspiration
today is the 19th anniversary of my skateboarding accident. i've talked about it before, . . .
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June 12, 2006 09:46 PM EDT --
i have met people who have not experienced a great love of place. i don't quite fathom this, as i have many places all over this globe that i love, feel at home in, and feel a sense of homecoming when . . .
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April 22, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Is there anyone else out there like me who just longs for the "good old days", growing up pure "country"?
Love to run bare-footed through the old corn fields and breath that . . .
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