Music and Placation

True story.
Not sure if it was temporary or not, but there were a couple of months that someone I knew experienced disintegration of an important relationship. (Ah, yes, a simpler way would be to say — a break-up) As with any, it was gradual, with spouts of pain, covered by unhealthy doses of [...]

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Snapping Out

I just had an “Ouch, I finally got it !” moment.
First, people do not value things that they can get easily. It’s sad, but that’s the way it is. Why oh, why, can we not be civil and value good will as it it — friendship, love, care, compassion, gratitude, empathy… [...]

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Pose Envy

Getting new computer means having to organize a lot of things to migrate from the old to the new. It’s a process similar to going through your closet agonizing over what to throw away and keep.
In my digital photo albums that I am trying to organize, I don’t have a lot of [...]

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

An unplanned visit to the Huntington Library. The garden tour was curated by a landscape architect friend, which added thousand times the pleasure. As he was pointing out the names of plants and flowers, I remembered just the other day, I was commenting to another friend how English botanical names sound so medical, [...]

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Weighty Tomes

Much has been discussed the past couple of days regarding books you read and the image you convey (or want to)as initiated by this NYTimes article. My favorite blogger ill iterate covered the issue hilariously as usual in her two postings (here and here).
The fact is, I have been reading a [...]

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