Gloria’s poem

Last week I watched the Inauguration with my friends Esther and Gloria. What a moving experience that was! To think that they have lived, especially 99-year-old Esther who grew up in the deep, segregated South, to see Barack Obama become our President. Gloria grew up in Yonkers and went to integrated schools, but played [...]

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Anne’s vision

Yesterday I had a delightful visit with my daughter-in-love, Anne. First, we had lunch at a nearby Indian restaurant. Then, back home, Anne talked about her new business, Transform Fitness. In March she will be opening her own fitness studio. Nothing like the other gyms and fitness facilities you’ve see, Anne’s studio is based on [...]

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My needlework history

In 1998 I signed up for the first offering of Katherine Colwell’s new EGA Individual Correspondence Course, a nine-lesson, 18-month course titled, Personal Needlework Connections Through Drawing and Design. [Although this course is no longer being offered, Katherine offers individual mentoring.]

In the first lesson, Katherine asked that I write about my own personal history in [...]

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It’s snowing, it’s snowing

Your petticoat is showing!!!
I love it.

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Laptop

Sitting at my computer for long periods, entering my physics notes, has made my back ache. So yesterday I hauled my antique Dell laptop out of storage. It’s ten years old, and I haven’t used it in about five years. It took me a while to figure out how to connect it! Then it took [...]

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Lovely lunch

Son Pete and his wife Karin invited me to have lunch with them, Noah, Michelle, and Luke. It’s the first time we’ve all been together in over a year. First, Noah wanted to see the Charlestown model trains. (Click to enlarge and see it at Flickr.)

From there we piled into Pete’s van and drove to [...]

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More books

Two more books have arrived to add to the pile I’m already tackling. John Wheeler died last year, after a highly distinguished career in physics. David Peat writes about creativity in The Blackwinged Night, including the creativity of nature, the universe.

The physics-related books by my reading chair.

I’m plugging along, but really, really missing stitching.

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Why blog?

Today Sharon Boggon has raised the question in her latest post. Do go read her thoughts about blogging and why she does it. I responded as follows:
Hi, Sharon. I began blogging in September 2007 because of your courses and TAST. I wanted to participate in the community that formed around those activities.
I blog so that [...]

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Study update

When I showed you, a little while ago, the books I was using in my study of physics and said that I was taking a time out from stitching and blogging so that I could finish that study and write an essay summarizing what I’d learned, I thought it would take a couple of months [...]

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New Year’s Blessing

For everyone who reads this post:
May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May you be free from  suffering and the causes of suffering.
May you never be separated from the happiness that is free from suffering,
May you rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
Tibetan prayer

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