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Writing music always pulls emotions up closer to the surface. Weather changes make me happy. Or sad. Depends on what changes and how. Listening to my older daughter's music is always emotional. But really, I think what I'm feeling today is the 3-week itch. We've noticed as we travel that when we land somewhere for a while, at [...] We've been in Mesa, Arizona with our friends Terry and Virgie for 4 days and it's beginning to feel like we're settling in. It's always a little challenge, getting meals sorted, finding everyone's favorite place on the couch for movies, where laptops go for work and play, bedtime routine for the Little One. Though we don't have [...] We had an interesting experience yesterday. Had reason to see half a dozen front doors on the same block Thursday morning. I noticed, at one, the cheap wood they'd used. Knots, with bits missing, raggedy and not attractive. Now, I love the structure of wood, the character. But it should be character, not just flaws. I pointed [...] Last night our friend Kari Hagensmith had a book release party for her first book, The Girlfriend Will . . . which we helped create. Our Someday Box service helps people get their book out of the 'someday' box and into their hands. You can read all about it at the Someday [...] My brother Brett's dog Duke likes to sing while Brett plays the harmonica. This is the first time Brett and I have played music together in, um, since, er, I don't remember. Huh. Must be more than 20 years. How is [...] After an event we drove around Lac Davignon. The causeway across the lake, the trees along the shore, the houses reflecting in the rippled surface . . . it's a memory I wanted to keep. We weren't talking about anything of consequence so I dropped in three of my songs which almost fit within the 10 [...] Fiona gets a little impromptu home schooling. Of course, 90% of her schooling is impromptu. It's not hard teaching an insatiably curious child who reads at college level and loves to talk. Okay, sometimes it's hard, like trying to define words in a way she'll take away and care about. Thank you, Charles Handy, for a [...] "Snow? In October? Nonsense!"—Cristina Favreau Oh yeah? #gallery-1 { Wanted: window scraper Snow on the bare trees (find the Fleetwood Mac album ‘Bare Trees’; it’s magnificent) Good thing the firewood is covered Snow tops the evergreen hedge The last hangers on, braving the snow The front porch Snow on [...] I seriously underestimated the disorienting effect of being surrounded by a language I don't speak, don't understand. Because the friends we're staying with speak perfect English (despite conducting much of their life in French) I assumed this part of Quebec would by like my experience in Ireland: everyone could speak Irish, but everyone also spoke English, often [...] In the short time since we chose this life I've been humbled by people's active desire to show generosity. The support we're receiving is not begrudging, not limited. In every instance, when we were already pleasantly surprised at the kindness and warmth and open-handedness of our hosts and supporters, they have one and all expressed a [...] |
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