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Climate Grief Watching Disaster Unfold

AND PERSONAL DISAPPOINTMENT And sadness for those who you care about but who just don’t care. I had to turn off the internet for a bit this week. Watching the horror of the Nepal Disaster was beyond what I could continue to watch. It wasn’t AI. It wasn’t computer graphics. It wasn’t movie theater fakery.ContinueContinue reading “Climate Grief Watching Disaster Unfold”

Rain. Because my mud was dehydrated. :)

7:20am, 61°F, light rain August first is starting out with an interesting weather day in my state. Half the state is under a PDS fire watch or is already burning, and the other half is wet, with a few parts above 7000 feet potentially seeing snow. There will be wind too, for the entire stateContinueContinue reading “Rain. Because my mud was dehydrated. :)”

It’s Been A While, Hasn’t it?

@5:45 AM 55*F, Mostly Cloudy, N 6 mph Wind, Monthly Rain 1.08″, Year to Date rain 37.20″ It seems the more I use my paper book journal the less I spend typing here but I am paying for this so I may as get back to regularly updating. Nothing much has changed other than theContinueContinue reading “It’s Been A While, Hasn’t it?”

Unfreezing Mentally

46°F, light rain, light wind I guess since my world as I knew it had come crashing down, I was stuck in a kind of mental limbo of doing only what I needed to survive. Roof over my head. Food in my belly. Work. A few people asked me what my plans for the futureContinueContinue reading “Unfreezing Mentally”

Dear Dad, It’s our dog’s birthday today.

https://videopress.com/v/TjJDB2X6?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true It is fitting that Rider and I are saying goodbye to your ashes today, at the end of a frightening and disparaging year. It’s also Rider’s 2nd birthday (he was born, as you may recall, about 30 minutes before the end of the year.) You had been so excited for this pup. To pickContinueContinue reading “Dear Dad, It’s our dog’s birthday today.”

Wind Storm- Flying Buildings and Blueberry Jam

54°, light rain, breezy “I’m tired of these storms! There never used to be so many!” Proclaimed my climate change denying neighbor when I mentioned another storm arriving Sunday. Last week we had a bit of a storm. And one I wasn’t quite expecting. Tuesday night, I woke up on hearing a bang and aContinueContinue reading “Wind Storm- Flying Buildings and Blueberry Jam”

Living with Osteogenisis Imperfecta: My Daily Struggles and Triumphs

I mentioned in the previous post that I was “partially handicapped” and I know, technically you are either handicapped or not but in reality, for me, some days I am just fine. Some activities don’t cause me very much pain. I was born with a genetic defect called Osteogenisis imperfecta. Basically that means I haveContinueContinue reading “Living with Osteogenisis Imperfecta: My Daily Struggles and Triumphs”