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blossoming day.

Mystic draw bridge
(a further photo for engineers below)

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home

The first memory was stirred by the dappled light softening the sharp angles of the building. Then the archway, framing stairs and illuminated trees. The whoosh of the door as we entered the cooled space, then a quick clatter across the courtyard. Down the stairs, second door. Seats chosen for sight [...]

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blog awards

Here’s a little something for those of you easily led to procrastination.
At synod, I will be leading a lunch time session on how blogs can serve the church.   One of my tasks over the next few days is to come up with ideas and examples.  So, I’d like you to search your memories, and other [...]

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glub, gloze & insurrection

The great weights and measures controversy continues in the comments. But one comment needs to come to the fore. Graham asks if I know what a glub is, in relation to a cord of wood.
Well, no. But I happen to be at home with the best ever Christmas present which I bought for [...]

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Memorial Day

Words later perhaps. But for now, another photo from Cambridge.
The friend I was visiting lives in an old neighborhood of East Cambridge where never a holiday goes by without dressing the house and ‘yard’. One of the most earnest decorators lives two doors down. She spent her working life as a lunch [...]

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as we like it

Bookstores and children’s stores. How else would two single thirty-somethings spend the day?
It is quite safe: only god-mothers and grandmothers play here.
No one in her right mind would actually take a child in.

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from the colonies

A quick post from Cambridge (Massachusetts, need you ask).
I am back in the life I might have had. Sunny New England Spring. Vibrant but easy city. More bookstores and toy stores and restaurants than you would ever know what to do with.
What strikes me in Cambridge is the curious mix of [...]

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red white and blue

It is still too soon to think while blogging but perhaps those of you in Britain might like some context.
Today I went to West Hartford to buy sunflower seeds and to get my ring cleaned. Never say my holidays aren’t exciting.
A very New England library — dedicated to Hartford’s own Noah Webster:

A fairly typical [...]

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change of scene

The blog and I are going on holiday for a few weeks.
I might post from the States, but otherwise, normal blogging will resume in June.

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as it turned out

A first today in the church registry: ‘Eucharist, 14, SEC Blogging Community’.
Most of my photo opportunities were purloined by the dog who was just so excited that he had to run away. No doubt others have done better. Photos of Bad-dog Blogger Max, Better Behaved Blogger Bridget, and some of their [...]

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