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A friend shared these words from Marge Piercy with me last week, and I found them remarkably beautiful:
Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure, make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us
interconnected with the [...]

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Elliot was discussing his school day with me, and mentioned the silly antics of two boys who were then sent to the office. Elliot had a visit there last week. In fact, there seems to be a frequent stream of 1st grade boys to and from the office for their 5 minute “break.” [...]

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Wow, I have had some busy hands lately. I made Halloween costumes, painted the living room and kitchen, started and mostly finished a doll, started work on curtains for the first grade classroom, raked leaves, and began to finish painting the trim inside and outside to complete my dad’s beautiful new window work. [...]

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E loses the first top middle tooth.

Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves

. . . my two front teeth, my two front teeth . . . and so the song goes. I think he might be singing it this year!

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