Category: other personal stuff
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Sunday Thoughts: Don’t Let This Fading Summer Pass You By
These lyrics don’t quite match this version of the song, but they’re close enough for me so here they are. “Magpie To The Morning” ©N. Case/Nedotykomka 2008 Magpie comes a calling Drops a marble from the sky Tin roof sounds alarming “Wake up child” “Let this be a warning” Say the magpie to the morning…
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While I was knitting …
I really don’t want all my blog post titles to be alliterative so I’m exploring some more interesting titles for them, including today – my second TV Tuesday While I was knitting … post. While finishing up the Gir hat and the scarf, and getting started on the luchadore mask balaclava, I started watching River…
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The Week
Last week I set some goals for the first time here and I crushed them but was a bit ambitious: Finish the secret project that I haven’t told you guys about Washed & blocked it, too! If the yarn comes, finish the 2nd Gir-inspired hat Also washed & blocked. Finish the pattern for the Gir…
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Sunday Thoughts: Kindness & Compassion
“When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.” —Thích Nhất Hạnh “It’s so easy to laugh. It’s so easy to hate. It takes strength to be…
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Tuesday is the New Monday (kinda)
Thanks to a holiday yesterday (Columbus Day in the US, known by many on social media as Indigenous People Day), today is the beginning of a brand new week. Since I finished the 30 Day (Blogging About) Knitting Challenge, I thought I’d try out a regular schedule of posts, something not quite as taxing as the…
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New Zealand: Halp!
Friends, especially those of you who’ve been to (or live in!) New Zealand, I need your help. My family is going to New Zealand December 22 to January 5; my husband’s uncle and cousins live there and are putting us all up at their place in Aukland. We’re arriving a week earlier than the rest…
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Sunshine Blogger Award
Weird Weekends nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award so I’m going to take a break from the 30 Day Knitting Challenge. I have to agree with him that this isn’t exactly an award but more of a chain letter writing prompt. I had grand ideas about what my blog would be and they didn’t…
Little Golden Notebook 