Ramble: verb (1) to move aimlessly from place to place (2) to explore idly (3) to grow or extend irregularly. noun (1) a leisurely excursion for pleasure. (Merriam-Webster)
The Wonderful World of Cats – August 15, 2021
We have become willingly overrun with felines. It has always been suggested that I was only a thin shade away from becoming a crazy cat lady. The real truth is that I have always been a crazy cat lady, it’s just not always visible to everyone else. Appearances notwithstanding, there are few things that make…
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Seashells by the Seashore- August 1, 2021
I’ve been finding myself drawn to the waterline a lot these past few weeks. I’ve always liked the water, but lately it’s felt as if I need to check in more regularly. Can the tides reassure me that things change, that there is always ebb and flow? Am I checking to make sure the tide…
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Listen, There’s Something You Need to Hear – July 18, 2021
As my community tries to rouse itself out of pandemic isolation, I find that my desire to ramble alone through early morning neighborhoods and woodlands has only increased. The birds and the trees are trying to tell me something about how to be a person after all the shifting and changing of the last year…
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Welcome Home – July 4, 2021
There’s nothing like a stifling heat wave to help me appreciate the general state of temperate weather that the Pacific Northwest Summer is (secretly) famous for.
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All Bodies are Summer Bodies – June 27, 2021
As I type this, we are in the middle of a heat dome in the Pacific Northwest. I can’t, in good conscience, call it a heatwave because that implies some movement. Nothing is moving, we are just baking. Summer has arrived with a vengeance and this heat isn’t messing around. If we’re not careful, our…
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The Rock – June 20, 2021
I see a fair amount of graffiti on my rambles. Some is amusing, some is confusing, and some… some are true works of art.
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Missives of Hope 