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Beyond the Visible: How We Are Connected: By Our Plastic Parts

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  So this is what happened on Sunday morning: I was excited! Though the day was gray and the weather not conducive to the great outdoors, my new Cuisinart arrived the day before and I decided that I would try to “make something,” If you recall, my machine, purchased with Robert, one Spring day in 1981, from Zabar’s and taken home on the subway, decided to bite the bread crumb. Though the iron workhorse of a 40-year old motor was still fine, it was the no-longer-made plastic parts that the blades were attached to, the stems, that just broke apart, … Continue reading →

430. Sans Souci’s Wildlife Refuge: Slugs on the rugs, grackles, and talking cats…***Little Arnold Update…

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. Winter is coming on fast here in New York City. It’s been many years since I remember these kind of temperatures and rain at this time of year. I hauled in plants last week that I usually don’t bring in until the beginning of November, and made my annual mess in the kitchen sink, cleaning them up and then trying to find places for them inside. I’ve been worried about Little Arnold. The weather here is not Octoberish—in fact, it feels more like NYC Decemberish. Every time I open the door, there is Little Arnold. Every time my neighbors … Continue reading →

164. Poetry: On Leaves

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My last year working in the school system before retiring, was a year of transition; I actually didn’t know what I was coming back to.  I had been out of the classroom for 16 years testing children for special education services and writing educational prescriptions.  But suddenly 1,100 of us in that capacity lost our positions when the budget was cut and the education system went under a business model.  It was a nightmare.  We had to return to the classroom.  I lost my office, my balance, my grip.  But it ended up being a delightful year as things began … Continue reading →

249. Celebrations: My son’s graduation

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I was away during the Memorial Day weekend to attend my son’s graduation (the 240th Commencement of Brown University). I thought I would do a post about the school and the incredible 2 day event to have as my own souvenir; you are welcome to share my happiness. Brown’s climate of openness and cooperation can be traced back to its founding over two centuries ago.  As the third oldest college in New England and the seventh oldest in America, Brown was the Baptist answer to Congregationalist Yale and Harvard; Presbyterian Princeton; and Episcopalian Penn and Columbia. At the time, it was … Continue reading →

84. Poetry: To Be Or Not To Be

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Evolution ©5/1/07 all rights reserved by author BANG!   Birth. Fire. Water. Earth. Cretaceous, spacious, bodacious, dearth– Buds, plants, pollen; cries  for bees, moths, butterflies.  Homosapiens: planters, farmers, sowers,  buzzers, flying, busy, growers;  Petals, stamens, pistols, honey; Hives, harvest, workers; money–   Cell phones ringing? GPS?  Fly too high like Icarus?  Hives are empty, won’t be long: barren fields, dry and wan, sunspots? warming? global spawn? Look again, the bees are gone. On Einstein’s earth: years left there’s four– once the bees are nevermore.  Bang. Comments (7 total) Post a Comment redhe… Offline IM How lovely, how true, and how very … Continue reading →

50. Poetry: The Light Side: Married life

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Rob and Sue Inc. Well blogerinas and blogerinos, today is another special day. Yesterday was my 2 month blogaversary (as Kari would appropriately call it) and today, well, it was 31 years ago that your Sans Souci married Mr. Sans Souci. It’s a day of celebration and gratitude. Relationships ain’t easy and marriage certainly isn’t either, but if a couple can last and not kill eachother, that’s a good sign. And if they produce a good kid, it’s even better. We did. And the good kid goes to a good school that requires good money, and Mr., who is rightfully … Continue reading →

228. From Mahler x 3, to postal poop, to getting screwed, to lightening bolts…

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This has been a strange week, indeed.  Bear with me and let me do my stream of consciousness. 1. It started with Tuesday Several people have asked about the Mahler concert (Mahler’s 8th “Symphony of a Thousand”); it was an experience.  Getting up to the balcony at good old Carnegie Hall was like an upwards trek in the outback.  Elevator? Who needs the elevator, we are already in the crowd pushing up the stairs. The equivalent of 8 flights. Or more.  I am still panting.  Then once up, it’s straight down to the seats.  I felt I needed a reverse … Continue reading →