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1889

 

1889

back up twenty eight 

days and weigh the damages

get back on the road

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A Boo Haiku

 A Boo Haiku

Boo won’t let me write.

He’s curled up on my paper. 

Boo Radley said, “No!”

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2021 New Year Haikus

2021 New Year Haikus 

Dames Ferry State Park

camping Lake Juliette’s shores 

new year welcomed here 

camper fully stocked 

sausage breakfast casserole 

black-eyed peas and ham 

Jacksonville beef brats 

Taster’s Choice flavor crystals 

Great Grains cereal

Duraflame gold bricks

here on campsite 23 

host-delivered wood

full window lake view 

dogs in our laps, watching ducks

locked and loaded growls

lunch at Whistle Stop

Bennett’s barbecue the choice

Fried Green Tomatoes

where’s our DVD? 

watching the movie (again)

raindrops on the roof

Jensen tuned just right

we love the country legends 

can’t beat classic rock!

reading, tinkering

relishing the disconnect

unplugged, loving life!

first day of the year 

doing what we hope to do 

more of through the year

there’s no substitute 

for together time, camping

hitch up and let’s go!  



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Time

For Christmas, I received a pair of rugs my husband custom-designed for our camper entryways. In creating them, he put careful thought into how we enjoy spending our time together. On this first day of 2021, we sit here on the shore of Lake Juliette, listening to the raindrops on the roof, sipping coffee and admiring the beauty of the water, taking life lessons from the ducks who joyfully swim the lake in the rain. The rugs aren’t meant to last forever, but the memories will.  Here’s hoping that 2021 is filled with more time spent being fully present in each moment. 

 “Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn’t to save it, but to savour it.” – Ellen Goodman, 1986



     TIME

making memories:

us, one campsite at a time

a gift we cherish 






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Goodbye 2020

 


Goodbye 2020

seventeen hours: goodbye 2020!

not hello 2021. goodbye 2020. 

goodbye covid

goodbye strange phenomena

no 2021 red carpet – just a 2020 eviction notice 

pack all your crap and leave!

goodbye 2020 and all your baggage

leave nothing on the curbside 

take everything – we’re moving on

you were a dumpster fire

leave nothing of your monstrous DNA

baby new year isn’t yours

and don’t play phoenix, either

pack covid and go!

2021 bears no relation to you 

goodbye forever 2020! 

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1838: Lingering

 

1838: Lingering

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                    Pictures tell the stories

Paris: earliest known photograph of a recognizable human form taken by Louis Daguerre

                    Appearance is important 

The fellow was having his boots shined 

                    Exercise

London in February: pedestrian walks backward 20 miles, then forward, in 8 hours

                    Save a penny for a rainy day

New Orleans: mint opens, making dimes

                    Notice the beauty in the everyday world

London: National Gallery opens

                    Appreciate freedom

Frederick Douglass, disguised as sailor, escapes slavery

                    Think things through 

England: Silkstone Mining Disaster – floods drown 26 children

                    Pray for others 

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1838 / Follow the Star

 


1838

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London: fire sweeps Lloyds Coffee House and Royal Exchange

     medium roast coffee

Samuel Morse invents telegraph 

     thoughtfully brewed for me 

First recorded lowest temperature: -60° in Yakutsk

     warms my heart 

South Africa: Weenen massacre 

     and revives my spirit

Maryland: Kentucky and Maine US Representatives have rifle duel (lobster loses)


     in a world gone crazy mad

Trail of Tears: forcible relocation of the Cherokee Nation

     in a cruel, unjust world 

London: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey

     where I’m treated like royalty: 

Frederick vessel first to accurately measure star distances

     Chick Fil A nuggets in the cab of a 

     pickup truck, watching the 

     Christmas Star – the Star of a King