I cannot even be in the same room with a spider but a gigantic cicada, no problem. Go figure.
Archive for July, 2009
Cicada in my garden
Posted in animals on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IBS and exercise
Posted in Gratitude on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have spent the week indoors, in a freezing air conditioned room, I have gained two new friends. I have grown to love a third even more. Joe is a good guy and since the dissolution of my marriage he has been there for me in so many ways, to fix my car, to loan me [...]
Light glorious
Posted in Flowers, Gratitude, Knitting, garden on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It must have been clearing the clutter that made the garden so utterly beautiful in the rich afternoon sunlight. I took my knitting out onto the front porch, I also took my camera. It wasn’t long before I was noticing how enticingly lovely eggplant flowers are. I looked out onto my newly groomed garden and my [...]
Long Productive Day
Posted in animals, garden on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wake at 6am. I lie there for a while and decide it is time to get up. I close my eyes and fall back asleep; in my dream I was riding a bike downhill while juggling an empty glass vase which turned into a phone that was ringing in my hand. I open my eyes and ….in [...]
It’s the small things
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The raindrops fall like cannonballs on my windshield, first a downpour of absolute bombardment. Then in a moment the rain is gone and all that is left behind is the flooded roads and the slapping of the windshield wipers. I rush home with my daughter. We are in Manlius, where she has spent a blissful [...]
I tell Paul this morning that I have posted about him on my blog. He says he hopes I said something nice, of course I say. His wife is a Buddhist and he shows me her picture, she looks familiar. Joe drives me crazy, preaching the gospel. Paul says we sound like an old married [...]
Exhausted
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I worked for about 6 hours, 7 with a one hour lunch break. I find that this kind of work is far more tiring than teaching. I am working with Joe, a friend who is an art teacher. We are also working with two music teachers, one of whom I liked from the first [...]
Herbal Remedies
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in college I became interested in herbal remedies, and other pharmaceutical uses of herbs. I tried dying my hair with chamomile blossoms, drank dong quai in my coffee to help prevent pregnancy, drank a special sweet dreams tea they sold in a tissane shop on Monroe Ave in Rochester, smoked mullein for [...]
Bee Tree
Posted in Bees, Flowers, trees on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The air is filled with a “heady” scent. The perfume that reminds me of honey fills the air. I breathe it in. I notice the tiny yellow flowers that fill the branches of the tree. Then I notice a buzzing sound. I look up into from the base of the tree to the top, it [...]
Ugliness
Posted in Gratitude, Knitting, artwork on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up feeling hideous today. Grumpy, cranky, miserable. I have my suspicions as to why but no proof yet. Let’s just say that I suspect that the cysts on my ovary may not yet be resolved, I am in some considerable pain. God aren’t hormones fabulous!
I knitted up the last bits of my linen sweater, [...]
