For all you curious minds who have been wondering what I'm up to here in Portland....
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Calendar!
02.11 Visit DeMara
02.22 Amory Lovins lecture
02.24-28 Mom visits!
03.11-13 Graham visits! (hopefully)
03.18-27 Spring Break
04.22 Earth Day!
Renegade Rose Morris!
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Photos!
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Quotes!
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
-Tom Stoppard, ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’
"To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s."
-Dostoevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
-Marian Wright Edelman, ‘Families in Peril’
"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, - that is your success."
-Thoreau, ‘Walden’
I Love Autumn
It’s such a nice season. The air is crisp, the trees are fabulous, the sunsets are amazing, and all is right with the world. It’s been sunny for several days now, so our roses have had a chance to come back for one last burst of color – I picked several today, so everybody has fresh roses in their rooms. It’s wonderful. Hugo has been taking pictures of the sunset every night, just because the colors are so gorgeous. We built a fire in the downstairs fireplace for the first time tonight, and it’s heating up the basement wonderfully. I do love fires; they make the house feel so cozy. For almost the last month I’ve smelled other people’s fires when I’ve been out walking – there’s something really special about walking along all bundled up in the cold, and smelling woodsmoke from your neighbors’ fires. And now we have a fire of our own! I was going to make hot-crossed buns this afternoon, but ran out of time – hopefully I’ll get a chance to do that soon, because that’s a cozy thing, too.
