I’ve been a little out of touch because I’ve been a lot out of sorts. Since I spent 3 hours trying to write about that with minimal progress, I’ll save it for later. What I want to talk about is the orange chair. Several people have asked me about the chair in the photograph on [...]

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The next time you get one of those little sparks of a great idea and you feel yourself bursting with enthusiasm, only to notice moments later that the flame has been extinguished by that thing called logic, take a look at this video from Playing for Change. This is just one segment of a film [...]

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It’s a cleaning house kind of weekend. Yesterday I felt compelled to spend the better part of a beautiful Saturday washing the hardwood floors and windows, dusting mini blinds, sweeping the deck and doing laundry. Today I think my spirit is doing a bit of cobweb clearing too. I’ve pretty much given in to a [...]

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It’s still very much my goal to be like my dear friend SuziCate and post a blog a day. So far, I’ve not done well with that. Right now I’m blaming it on the fact that it’s all I can do to keep my head above water while getting settled into a new location. It [...]

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I’ve been in LA exactly one month today, and I’m leaving. Yep, that’s right. Packing it up, loading the dogs back into the car, and watching the Santa Monica pier fade from view in my rear view mirror. I’m going up to Ojai. If someone had told me a couple of months ago that I’d [...]

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Several month back I found my dear friend Susan on Facebook. We went to elementary school and junior high together but hadn’t seen each other since 1978, when I moved back to my hometown from the mountains. Over the course of the summer and fall we’ve managed to get together quite a bit and share [...]

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A guest post written by my friend, D. Life is a picture. Whether a photo, or a painting, a sketch or a collage, each is a product of its own unique constitution and circumstance. While we generally have an idea of where it comes from, rarely can we fathom where it will come to. As [...]

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