Tag: weather
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August
August is not my favorite month. I’m not sure I’ve ever spent time thinking about this, but today it came up as I was writing my morning pages. The daily three pages of stream of conscious writing is a new facet of my life, derived from The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron. I should probably […]
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The idea of Elsewhere
I’m not sure when I gave up, but not long ago, I realized I’d thrown in the towel on our weather. Instead of grousing about it, I decided not to pay attention to it. I began to go about my day, do what I could to tolerate it better than I have in the […]
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Monday: Fair to Middlin’
I must be mellow today. I’ll credit the heavy fog blowing across my patio right now, and the drops of water left on my plants and spider webs high in the trees. It doesn’t look or feel like late summer, but this happens when the desert to the east of us is hot, pulling moisture […]
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The effect of Paradise and marine layers on golf.
I think by now you know that I have a “maybe like – sorta meh” relationship with this palm-laden place I begrudgingly refer to as Paradise. I know that there are many cities I could live that pale in comparison are much more interesting, but my grousing is about more than the monotonous weather that […]
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What time is it?
It’s not quite midnight here and it’s lovely outside. When I open the back door, the air rushes in and I can smell the jasmine blooming on the fence between our neighbor’s house and ours. It’s warm out and the sky is clear. I can see constellations I don’t normally see. It’s beautiful. But I’m […]
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Wordless Wednesday Contrasts
If you haven’t been reading my blog for any length of time, then you need to know that my idea of Wordless Wednesday is to write less than four or five pages in a single post and add photos. That would be today, even though the orange glow of the setting sun on the houses […]