♪ It’s Canada Day up Canada way on the first day of July ♪ this is what I’m thinking this morning, usually the first thingthat runs through my mind when the day is upon usour beloved Stompin’ Tom Connors, sung…
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Have I ever told you, there are timessometimes, well most timeswhen I am afraid of the world outside, (I’m sure I have)that sometimes I won’t go outside the front gateeven to look at the flowerswithout delving too deepthere may be…
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I been wanting to write for days,but for lack of sitting time,I have yet to startanythingreal blissfully happy in the garden, thisis my time of yearhot, hot, heatslight breezedigging out, tending toadmiring late bloomerswatching bees and early flutterbystadpoles and toadstalking…
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I begin of course, by walking the gardens… today being a day off, you might already knowhow I am spending my timethe early morning, overcast and humidgives a damp heavy feeling to thingsthe toads are loudly calling out from the…
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It is a hard thing sometimes to standin the sunlight, as it warms your skinand think of all the sadness in the worldor the burdens some mustcarry my garden is such that the trees, shrubsand vast cool green vegetation give…
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A beautiful morning so I take my coffeeand book outside to enjoy the quietalmost instantly a large truck rumbles to a stopthumps and bangs, then a chainsaw and a noisy chipper begindestructionof some kinddisruption for me as I happen to…
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Today I’m thinking about authoritative things,and things I am expert about(also known as random thoughts and thinking thingsI think, as I wander the garden) like miracles,as I am watching the bees in the blossoms on my crab apple treeamazed by…
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This morning I coach the washing machinethrough the spin cycle,I know it’s jeans, I say in a comforting tone,and they tend to make you feela littleoff centre,but just do the best you canto which it kindly acquiesces I return to…
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This morning what I’m feeling is a great deal of painin my forearms, wrists, hands and fingersnumbness in my right hand and swelling,painful limited movement in my left thumbhands that have served me well,but also need torestmaking it quite uncomfortable…
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Yesterday I finished reading a book on J.D. Salingerfeeling quite fired up, I am anxious to sit down and writea graciously respectful nod to someone who came to feel(in rather audacious thoughts) as somewhat of a kindred soul who so…
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