I have never felt there is any adequate thanks that can be given to the families of those who have given their lives in protecting us. I know from our emails together that many of you have loved ones who are serving today while the rest of us celebrate a day off. Many prayers for...
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Today, the pools open around here which I take as a sign that it’s time to bring out the summer records from artists like Buena Vista Social Club, Beck, DMB, Pink Martini, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, Al Green, Amos Lee, P Funk, Sam Cooke, G. Love, Orchestra Baobab, etcetera. I’m adding to the rotation this...
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Stephanie’s cousin beautifully sang Love Is You during the ceremony and I listened to it while looking through the images this morning. Everyone there, even the little babies, wore big smiles for this couple. It was the perfect song for them.
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When they brought after dinner coffee, it arrived in this mug. Great shape, love the color. Nothing tacky written on it. The perfect mug. “Can I buy it from you?” I asked the server. “You can have it. They break all of the time.” It was as if he had just handed me a crisper....
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I’m still working on converting my Kentucky cottage into a beach house. As we drove around in beach communities this week, I took quick photos from the passenger seat of details that make a house a beach house, like this one. It’s not always the beach, it’s the little things: like starfish, confederate jasmine on...
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I’m sure many of you know, Kelly Feinberg writer and co-author of Notions and Threads passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family and friends. Her family has asked in lieu of flowers for memorial contributions to be made in her name to the Avon Foundation’s Breast Cancer Crusade, The Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization...
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A jeweler is running an ad that features Rent’s Seasons of Love. I saw Rent in New York with the original cast in 1995. I was a high school senior who had just been to Washington DC earlier in the summer to meet a President. I thought I was special. I thought I would change...
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I love this series of shirts from Patagonia, but somehow spending $30 bucks to remind myself to simplify seems like a bit of a contradiction. The more I get rid of the nouns and verbs that don’t fit into the life I’ve imagined, the better I feel and the more room I have for the...
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Listening to: Song For Junior – Beastie Boys This was hanging outside my daughter’s preschool class. There were many renderings of God and Jesus from her classmates. I was sort of tickled to see the name next to this one was hers. “No one orders a bouquet of beige flowers.”- John Hunt, Observation No. 16...
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