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If Today Gets Difficult

If Today Gets Difficult

SOL25-0930 If today gets difficult, I will remember—Slower mornings—The aroma of coffee brewing—Sweet sounds of songbirds—Sunlight flooding my east windows If today gets difficult, I will remember—The voices of those I love—Music...
A New Day

A New Day

SOL25-0923 I step out onto my back porch. In the darkness that precedes this mid-August dawn, I sip my coffee and savor the damp coolness that has drifted in from the sea and lifted the fragrance of fading lavender and blooming peppermint. I listen for chirping sounds...
Sea Fog

Sea Fog

SOL25-0916 The marine layer rolls in like a whispered secret, softening the edges of the Oregon Coast and turning the familiar into something dreamlike. Foggy mornings here aren’t gloomy, they’re pure magic. The Oregon Coast I.Supper was take-out—clam chowder...
A Summer Afternoon

A Summer Afternoon

SOL25-0909 There is a dry rustle of leaves parched from days of sun and hot temperatures. There is an aroma of fading roses mingled with sweet ripening pears. Green clover spreads across our browning grass. Honey bees drift from blossom to blossom, gathering the last...
Get That Wasp

Get That Wasp

SOL25-0902 Me: Reclining in a lawn chair, relaxing on a warm end-of-summer afternoon.TM and NT: Jumping on the nearby trampoline. I. Wasp appears. Buzzes the boys like a bomber.The boys duck and scream.Wasp lands on the trampoline springs. II.The boys tumble off...
Crazy Dreams

Crazy Dreams

SOL25-0826 I had a crazy dawn-cracking dream
 today. It was an early morning Zoom meeting, working with educators on the East coast. I’m on the West coast–a 3-hour time difference. This is what happened.I awoke with a start before the sky was light. I...