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Summer’s Almost Here
“The end of a matter is better than its beginning”—Ecclesiastes 7:8 I just dropped the kids off for their last Tuesday of the year. Three more days and then…SUMMER! If I want to feel proud and accomplished today (which I do!) I will dwell on this truth: We made it through an incredibly challenging year,…
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May 23, Round 3
I wanted to mark the 23rd of May somehow. The day has been so important to our family since Vernon was hit. Every passing year, we did something special, but this would be the first year that we couldn’t return to him afterwards. I’ve been thinking about that too: how life is simpler because we…
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Program(me) Notes
The program in which I share about Vernon’s connection to Waterloo Sunset was broadcast in the UK on Wednesday and is available to everyone online now. If you have a free half hour, please take the time to listen. Here is the link. I didn’t know what to expect really. I knew a few…
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Budapest
Last August, when Vernon was in hospice, my artist friend Ty Clark wrote the following post on his own website. (Original post here) He had been doing a residency in Budapest, but was following our journey from that distance. I only recently realized the impact that Vernon’s impending death had had on him at the…
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BBC Showtimes and Info
It’s just a few days until the BBC 4 Radio program (programme) that I got to be a part of will be broadcast on the British airwaves. I was asked some months ago to share about Vernon’s connection to the Kink’s song, Waterloo Sunset, which happens to be 50 years old this very year…just like Vernon! Click…
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Pavement Pictures
A photo taken two years ago and one taken last week…(both in Laguna Beach.) “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”—Oscar Wilde
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Who’s Counting?
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.” ― Neil Gaiman It’s 6:15 am on Friday, May 12. I remember when we used to count Fridays as notable markers, beads on an the abacus of time. “It’s been five weeks since Vernon’s accident…t’s been 16, its been two years, etc”…all…
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Anni Albers
Here is a post I put up on my Groundbreaking Girls website last week. It happened to be National Widow’s Day. Don’t feel bad that you didn’t know this. It’s a new thing, I think. And new widows are the first in the know—given the responsibility of spreading the news. I don’t know if there…
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Bright Star
My wonderfully sensitive and gifted friend, Belle Logie, gave me the above painting for my birthday last year. It’s a “Waterloo Sunset” with Vernon and me up on the bridge. This week, she sent me a song she wrote about us. She said it was okay for me to share it here. I think its beautiful…
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Eulogy and Photos
I finally downloaded the great photos that our talented friend, Scott Hendrix, took at Vernon’s and my “10th Anniversary Party/Memorial” last September. I love them so much. What lovely reminders of a special evening. We were going for a relaxed, southwestern feel that he felt so at home in, even though he’d only spent a…