Apricity

The leaves are green

The leaves are green

Today on Facebook, a good friend who is caught in deep winter asked her friends for a story “about how outside their door the sun is warm, the leaves are green, and there’s fruit hanging in the trees.”

The first thing I wanted to tell her was that I [...]

Pigeons First

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When I first saw Gem, I thought he was three feet tall. That was a powerful misperception, given that he is in reality just 10 1/2 ounces of flesh and bone and very fancy feathers.

I was driving home at the end of the day, fantasizing about apricots as jam makers do in [...]

November in the Garden

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard. ~ George Washington Carver

Door-yard contentment is something I need to remind myself of,

again and again.

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