LOL, how awesome it is that you find this to be easy, @owasco! Power struggles.... never dare to disagree with or *contradict my sister (#3 of the 5). Omg. I am still trying to detox. She is the world's

Ah, how I want this to be true: Fortunately, life will give you plenty of opportunities to reclaim your agency and power and start over. From what I have seen, though, people will continue to overlook

Interesting perspectives! ....the creativity of managing resources. My father used to say that he would die if he had to become poor, because he had no clue how to do it, and yet many of the local 'colored'

Gorgeous photos! "The humidity was wicked on Wednesday morning and I had put on a hooded sweatshirt to keep the mosquitoes off." Got overheated. Oh man. Weather, bugs, poison ivy. My own excuses

You are incredibly productive, hard-working, enterprising, accomplished! Cider - one of my all time favorites! Oh, those yellow jackets devouring the groundfalls. Gotta watch out when we mow around our

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Thank you, and thank you, @rhondak!

Thank you @hlezama, @litguru, and @deeanndmathews,for your kind thoughts.

I like the book - it's similar to Eckharte Tolle's Live-in-the-Now books. So many variations on the same old theme. Detach! Live in the moment! Let go! Move on,

Thank you again for your thoughts and insights on the loss of our loved ones. I keep thinking of Anthony de Mello's "Awareness" and the things we "expect" of others. We think others

Thank you so much for this @erh.germany - your name is familiar because anything germanic catches my eye. Interesting, that at a younger age, the loss of a loved has less impact rather than more: we get

Now I almost wonder if "Evacuation" would be a more fitting title. :)

"And hope that the toilet will flush" - what a way to end a poem! #Love it! Sturm und Drang: how I love those words! Esp. as spoken by a native German. I butcher the accent like Hogan's Heroes

Thank you so much (and how do you create the little font! @Raj showed me once and of course I forgot). The cemetery service (family only) was today. We all survived. Lori's daughter asked Tim to bring

Thank you! I love you!!! And this: a breather, and a chance to heal, and to love each other more closely. And sleep, deep deep sleep with beautiful dreams.

Or chirping in Mariel's bathroom. (Starting the day after Lori died.) Or dropping tree frogs on my head. Rainbows, unicorns, butterflies - Lori would have to be more original than that. :) Thank you for

The cricket! Forget butterflies - I associate Lori with crickets, the lively, talkative little things. Everything you write is poetic. I can go sit alone in a house I love, in a town I know and feel safe

Thank you, and my condolences on your mother. Next to losing a child, losing a mother has to be the worst loss. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the blessed "release" and ashes over another

Oh, how I love this, all of it, condensed version of a year in the life, oops, now it's more than a year, with no end in sight! You may have been one of the first New Yorkers to experience Covid, before

ME TOO What were the chances you'd choose a LION image for this post??? Uncanny, and incredibly assuring, because my sister Lori the Lion .... Your egg analogy - your insight: That mortal walks away carrying