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Torch Lake Views out of commission on WordPress

November 13, 2009

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If I am able to post this at all, it will have taken me well over half an hour to do so, and there will be no photos.  For some reason my WordPress installation is malfunctioning badly.  Support is looking at the situation.  We shall see.

Eleven o’clock, November 11

November 11, 2009

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The sun is shining through the bare trees outside the Writing Studio and Bait Shop. There was a hard frost last night, and the air is so clear that I feel as if I could see time itself. All over the blogosphere people are stopping to remember the moment the guns of World War I […]

What potato chip bag?

November 10, 2009

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The finest thing an artist can do is to make me laugh out loud. It’s interesting how often the laughter is very close to tears. This morning I learned, long after the rest of the world had cottoned onto it, that one of my favorite Truly Funny Writers, Terry Pratchett, has early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. […]

The only prayer I ever say . . .

November 8, 2009

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. . . is Thank you. Thank you for this day. I favor a simple theology, and do not trouble myself overmuch about who might be listening. Perhaps it is only the other molecules of light and shadow that fill the universe alongside my grateful self. I know only that I did not arrange this […]

And how to understand?

November 6, 2009

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Once again shockwaves of violence out of Texas. What is it about Texas? Is that even a fair question? Neighbors around the world want to know what it is about us, the U.S. Not a fair question either, I think. What is it about people . . . why do we torture ourselves with hatred […]

Moonrise over Elk Rapids

November 1, 2009

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This was an unsettling day, what with getting back the hour stolen from me last spring and then having a hard time keeping track of it. I was in danger of being early for everything, but then I got distracted. On the way to Traverse City there is an old orchard. This year the deer […]

Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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