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Distraction Confounded
29 January 2026 As the snow storm approached last Saturday, 24 January, I found myself in a rare if brief mood, focused and pleasantly anticipating both the coming snow and a lovely little tea party in New Castle to honor two friends with January birthdays, one 87 and one 89. Humans are hard-wired for certainty,…
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January Blues
11 January 2026 As we head into mid-January, I’m finding myself uncomfortably empathizing with our volatile weather, alternating heavy rain warm enough to melt much of what had been a lovely (and brightening) snow cover with dropping temperatures that freeze my sloping backwards question mark of a driveway into a contorted luge course, making me…
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Transition
20 December 2025 Koyaanisquatsi, Dear Reader, is a Hopi word that translates to “life out of balance” or “a state of living that calls for another way of living.” Koyaanisquatsi is also the title of 1982’s wordless documentary directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. That film made…
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Commonwealth Utopia
22 November 2025 Last night Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project home to Boston for a sold-out Celebrity Series concert in Symphony Hall that was for the first time simulcast to over 20 venues across the Commonwealth. In a 19 November interview on Boston Public Radio, Ma, who has since 2018 toured six continents performing…
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Hilton Head Reunion
2-5 November 2025 Last week I made my first visit to Hilton Head, where my college suitemate Karen, with Pete, my acting teacher and Karen’s late husband of 50+ years, often spent their holidays. My trip began smoothly enough with another first, a chauffeured drive to Logan airport and a non-stop flight to Savannah. There…
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Good / Bad / Good News
26 October 2025 Last night I watched Rachel Maddow’s extended coverage of last weekend’s No Kings rallies, seven million Americans protesting across all 50 states in multiple venues, cities large and small. The Weeks Crossing rally in Dover, New Hampshire (my 6th protest of the Felon-in-Chief) was the largest of the those I’ve attended, coupled…
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Flower Power
13 October 2025 The grey morning of 8 October, my birthday and day 5 of a frustrating case of laryngitis, did not begin auspiciously. I woke from some sad dream morbidly wondering who would, when the time came, take on the task of spreading my ashes around the flower beds of my home, joining those…
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October Accounting
4 October 2025 Here it is, Dear Reader, nearly two months since my last post, well into my birth month, and I’m struggling to account for all that has transpired since last I addressed you.. What’s been happening? My last hummingbird deserted the feeder outside my kitchen window over a week ago, no doubt bound…
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Gundalow
6 August 2025 In this brave new world of OpenAI offering both “companionship” for the lonely and the undoing of education as I once knew it, I’ve been seeking solace from such discombobulating changes in the macrocosm—and in my personal microcosm as well. The latest physical annoyance in the latter: floating bodies—chips of bone in…
Georgeann Murphy 