June 28, 2010
Sometimes I envy people who can plod through life, staying on a safe course their whole lives.
I’ve wished that I could just watch situations play out without having to get involved.
In the past, I’ve vowed to take on various responsibilities, promising to myself – and my family – that I would not get emotionally involved. That I could just do my time and move on.
But I can’t. I’m just not bent that way.
If I could, I probably would have a [...]
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April 27, 2010
On Saturday I discovered a melon-sized bird’s nest hidden in the rhododendron. So that’s what those robins had been up to I had seen hanging around the deck several months ago!
Neither seeing nor hearing any birds nearby, I pulled the branches back so that I could peer into the nest and saw four bright blue-green eggs about half the size of my thumb. Three were perfect, while the fourth had an irregular hole in the top, appearing to have been pecked.
What [...]
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