Something in the mists of the morning suggest that it is going to be a magical weekend . . . ~ John Aaron

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I’d become a hermit. I work from home, and that made it easy. I spent my days in pajamas and my nights in front of the TV. I didn’t shave anything anywhere in weeks, my unwashed hair was streaked with grey. I had my meals delivered and stole from my landlord’s garden. I began to [...]

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Today I honor all the wonderful women in my life. The one I was born to and the ones I was born with, who get me for who I am and encourage with love and honesty though I don’t always make sense. The one who recognizes me most of the time, but is most intimately [...]

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Exactly two months ago today I landed in LA, and exactly one month ago today, I left LA. Happy anniversary to me. Before I’d even given notice at work, informed the landlord I was moving, or packed the first box, I told myself that I’d look at this as a sort of experiment, that nothing [...]

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Tonight’s full moon is the Gathering Moon. Time to celebrate all we have accomplished. Set intentions for the coming spring. And recognize our own personal achievements and advancements. This is good for me. Because I find too often that my own inner guide still bends to the other, my own worst critic. Time for that [...]

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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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The dogs and I arrived in LA in one piece (or three separate but intact pieces) on the evening of January 5th. After 10 days on the road and more potty stops than I can count ~ not all of them for the dogs ~ our entrance into the city could have easily come straight [...]

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I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I spend an hour or so writing up two lists: one recording all the accomplishments and personal goals that were reached in the passing year, and one that’s more of a stream of consciousness brain-belch of things I’d like to do, be or become throughout the evolving new [...]

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For my Mama and Hosa. Merry Christmas 2009. Last night my family sat down to watch The Homecoming. Everyone was in town for Christmas Dinner a night early, and it was kind of cool to be watching the original Walton’s movie with my sisters and mom, since we actually lived right there in Walton Country [...]

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Living Out Loud. ( v11). Tis the gift to be simple. The 2009 Christmas season has been an unusual one. Instead of the traditional parties, getting together with friends, and full-on house decorating, most of my time has been spent going through everything I own and weeding it down to the 4 or 5 plastic [...]

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I just came close to having a meltdown, but I cleaned the bathroom instead. It’s 1:31pm on the second full day of the November Nor’Easter. The dogs and I just got back from a walk up the street to check the water levels, and the neighborhood is still basically cut off from the rest of [...]

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Pearl spoke a language that had nothing to do with words.

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