Category: Home Work
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Masks | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Be alert. Stay safe. [This blog’s extended run ends today, more than two years after its launch in March 2018 and two months after a relaunch as
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Luminescence | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 This fetch ball glows in the dark, but our dog doesn’t give a damn. He can spot a tossed no-glow ball in a yard lit only by starlight. We humans, however, find such radiance absolutely amazing. The ball’s luminescent material somehow traps photons and slowly releases them.…
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Unmade Bed | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | Some people put great pride in making their bed each morning. But doesn’t an unmade bed speak of mystery? Those twisted blankets helped transport you to another reality, Dreamtime, where parallel lives unfolded in incredible detail. I try to read wrinkled…
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Mug Shot | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | Few objects are as personal as coffee mugs. The right properties — rim, handle, heft, volume — can transform a ceramic container into morning’s handheld comfort. Our own cabinet of cups includes some inherited, some given, some awarded, and very few…
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Pencil Shavings | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | The greatest inventions — spoon, book, pencil — are so pure in design and function that their digital versions often appear laughable. Sure, I read on a Kindle and type on a computer, but these technologies always feel like the first…
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Cowboy Hat | East Wenatchee,WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | Hair gone; hat on. In fact, hats as head warmers now fit snugly atop my aging body’s list of corrective measures — eyeglasses, medicines, dental fillings, arterial stents and, egads, ear-fuzz trimmers. For me, cowboy hats are far too cumbersome for daily…
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Potted Plant | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | There it is — one gazillionth of the great global churn of photosynthesis, and it lounges languorously in our dining room window. This rooted resident is an unspecified house plant, actually a type of stunted tree, that works all day to…
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Bread | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 “Bread making is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells. There is no chiropractic treatment, no yoga exercise, no hour of meditation that will
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Tulips | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 (Tired of tulip pics? If not, you will be by the end of this blog post.) Early bloomers, these bulbiferous beauties daub blazing color across drab backyards. For two weeks they’re the life of the party — too loud, too flashy, probably drinking too much. Then they…
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Clothes Dryer | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Being inside prompts me to look inside — deeper into drawers, closets, microwave, toilet tank, vacuum cleaner, clothes dryer and, oh yes, thoughts and habits. You know: Inner workings revealed. I tell myself that I’ve seen it all before, but that’s not true. This is
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