Tag: good thing
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One Good Thing
While it certainly is not fall yet (gauging by the temperature, anyway), it has been a bit cooler than last week’s hinge-melting heat. Therefore, needing a respite from the office, I took my lunch to my secret little shaded park this afternoon. I really can’t recommend this enough – I spread a blanket on the…
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One Good Thing
Sometimes there’s so much to do that the only sensible course of action is to ignore all of it and find a few small pleasures. Here are three. The zinnias by the front steps are the talk of the pollinator world. I took a final look at that beautiful puzzle then joyfully tore it up…
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One Good Thing
Weekends with Dad can be bittersweet. In my memory, Dad is a tall, devil-may-care man with a huge appetite for life. As he enters his mid-90s, things are changing, and sometimes it’s hard to see how my memory doesn’t match my current reality. But there is so much beauty in the passage of time, too.…