When you stumble, make it part of the dance

sizzle

2011-04-01T18:10:00.000-07:00

when i sit on the pier to watch the sun set i anticipate a sizzle when it finally falls into the sea..and it looks like there is a sizzle

watching

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chairs at Newport Beach watching the surf

watching

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watching the world go by, boardwalk Newport Beach, CA

beach

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Newport Beach, Thanksgiving 2010

They said

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*John Donne--"A sentence is a little world made cunningly."

*James Baldwin--"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."

*V Woolf--"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

*Jorge Luis Borges--"I always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

*H G Wells--"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

*Steinbeck--"We spend all our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."

Home from the Great War

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He is home, safe.

a visitor

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On the way home
with Lola.

in the glen

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late last summer

From

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From the balcony

sitting

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Or maybe I'll sit on the windtunnel porch

Tripping horse

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The horse that gives R the creeps.

Den

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Children's den

Sitting

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A place to Sit

Rain

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After the rain

Wall

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On a hospital wall

Hat

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Fred Astaire was here.

Tools

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Tools

Chips

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Chips from the pavement

Painting

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Painting found in a bookstore

Bowl of Soup

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"It's the simple things in life you treasure."

Tech Sargent Chen (Fred Kwan)

GM's

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Glorious mornings

Face in the Sand

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Curve

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Curve in the road

North

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Looking north

Stone cookie?

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In Santa Fe

Arrow

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www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html

Flowers

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Hanging flowers

Found

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Found in the park

Wet

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Summer in the river

On the mall

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Found on the mall

Reserve

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Reservoir

Beach

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Beach with a son

Home

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Home safe.

Skylight

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Irish skylight

Company

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Company. Tidy company.

In pitcher

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Quilt in pitcher

Cracks

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Cracks in bridge

Naptime

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Naptime

T-bar

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Cowboy hats.

"Pretty cool out there today."

"Nice weather to do some horseshoeing."

No salad bar.

Lots of steak.

Flies that are ignored.

The waitress knows everyone by name.

Lake

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Lake

Triangle

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What is it? A bikini? A shawl?

Fall path

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Late fall path

Cement

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Cement Buddha

At rest

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Bag and hat at rest in an Irish restaurant

sunflower

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By the railroad tracks

Food

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Entrance to my favorite restaurant

waders

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"Please remove waders before entering store"

A in W

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Kaitlin and Briget

Perch

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Precarious perch.

Head

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Behind the head

Russian sage

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Russian sage...

sagey, sticky fingers, movement in the wind, vibrant color

Details

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Details on the Stupa

base

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Around the base of the Stupa

oasis

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Water caught on the high desert.

the Path

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On the path to the Stupa.

labyrinth

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Labyrinth on Museum Hill in Santa Fe.

buddies

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Buddies taking a rest.

grain elevator

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Grain elevator in Wellington.

horse

2009-07-05T06:08:00.000-07:00

Horse by the Christmas tree market.

protective cover

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Wide brimmed hat days are here

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Morning glories on the balcony

memories of an ice storm

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Last winter's ice storm cools me down .

Path

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By the path.

Milk enough to go around

2009-03-20T11:58:00.000-07:00

For me the best part of rearing three children was breastfeeding them. After the positive pregnancy test I decide to experience procreation fully--breastfeeding, staying home to raise them, reading picture books over and over, listening to 85 versus of favorite songs repeated 85 times from the back seat of the car--you get what I mean. The total immersion belief: if you are going to eat corn on the cob why not experience it from seed to composting?

Can you see this magnet? It's a repro of a Picasso. Lovely. Hold on, this is going somewhere.

Recently Selma Hayek has received flak because while visiting Africa she breastfed a starving, emaciated infant. Evidentally she was motivated by the plight of the infant and by the fact that she had left her nursing daughter at home and her breasts were engorged. Two problems solved: hungry infant and engorged (not unpainful) breasts. So what is the big deal? Why the out cry? Concerned people write and talk about the plight of Africa and want to send billions of aid money and troops to straighten out the situation and then criticize a woman for helping one infant (and his mother who was probably stressed from not being able to feed her son), one soul, in the way that she was uniquely, in the moment, able to do so.

By the way people, nursing moms in the US cross-breastfeed (have I made up a new word?) all the time. I did. My husband's aunt breastfed her nephew. A friend did. And many more.

Get real.

Door

2009-03-19T06:58:00.000-07:00

If eyes are the portal to one's soul, house doors must be the gateway to a life. The house connected to this door is for sale. The owners are ready to downsize. Their things have been sorted,reduced in volume. Decisions made as to what is important, what things define them.

It was a happy process. One not done from financial pressure but instead from a realization that it is time to evolve, move on to another stage of life. Find another door to be their gateway.

2009-03-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

Every year about this time after enduring a winter which I think will never end I am pleasantly surprised to find that it (winter) is ending. Having seen daffodils near the library, I went to investigate what is happening at the children's garden--the only completed part of the city hort park. (Truth be told, are gardens ever really completed? Mine never are.)

This paver is embedded into a circular path leading up to the fish pond and small water fall. The water fall is working--such a pleasant gurgle on a blue sky day!

Grooming

2009-03-17T04:29:00.000-07:00

High desert climate here. Although it is cold I feel the dryness more in the winter when my sinuses ache from lack of moisture and my skin wrasps when I touch it. My massage therapists knows to slather on the oil when she begins to smooth out the accumulated aches in my bod.

On account of all this, it is a delight to take the dog to be groomed. We leave in darkness early in the morning and drive to a little town just north of here where Donna has her grooming shop. Donna has inherited and been gifted a jungle array of plants which thrive in the humidity (lots of hot moisture in the air from baths) and sunshine (south facing store front windows). (This photo only shows a fraction of the number of plants.)When I walk through her doorway I am enveloped in moisture and try to stay as long as I can.

Coming soon

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Hang tight this blog will rise.

You don't know me

2009-03-15T17:16:00.000-07:00

You don't know me, without you have read a blog by the name of serendipping.com but that ain't no matter. That blog was made by Seren and she told the truth mainly. (a curtsy to Mr Twain)
When last we met over at serendipping.com Seren was, well, I don't remember so let's just begin all over again.
These fellas here are waiting for their coffee craving owner. I love the cluelessness of dogs, the way they watch everything going on in the world. Don't worry, the weather was mild on the day I captured this and they appear well cared for.