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Once in awhile, I create the Mona Lisa (opens the original)
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I had a good photography friend once upon a time before cancer took her away. We would go to week-long photography workshops together. At the end of the day we would say, ‘Well, no Mona Lisa today. Maybe tomorrow.’ Another words we were saying our shoot that day produced images that were between barely plausible and just plain shit. My dog could have done better.But last week … oh, my! I hit the motherlode. And here she is; not this shot, but the next one. This one is about her footwear choice f
‘When Half of You Is Gone’ (opens the original)
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Facebook sent me one of those emails of memories from the past this morning. Normally I just delete them. They’re usually of family and friends embarking on some ‘fabulous’ trip with their usual smiles pasted on even when they might have been sniping at each other just a minute before. But, this time I clicked on it and there was my husband. Startled me.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZoZU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3
This is a quiz. Who said the following quote? You will get 4 jelly beans left over from the Reagan era for the right answer. (opens the original)
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The Champlain Valley Fair in pictures (opens the original)
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Sustained empathy is hard work when all of us are stressed (opens the original)
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I went to Lowe’s for bird seed yesterday. Twenty to twenty five grackles arrive now most mornings and perch high up on the dead tree in my neighbor’s yard. I try mentally not to be a bird racist, but I am. They can strip the three feeders in a couple of hours while the sparrows and cardinals wait for what they leave behind. I am over sensitive to abuse of power right now and the grackles are a good substitute for Trump stripping everything around us for himself while we wait for the left over cr
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