Black & White
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Sisters…
The farther apart they are the more they seem to communicate. It has been interesting noticing how the conversation has changed between the kids with our oldest of to school. The family of 3 months ago is gone, passed into the ages like crawling turns to walking. Not bad, mind you, just change which has… Continue reading
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End of the Peninsula.
From Old Mission Lighthouse on Mission Peninsula in Northern Michigan. Continue reading
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The Rents Waiting.
Bobby’s Ps stayin cooool, like the hip cats they are, waiting for the knot to be tied. Grand Travers Resort, Michigan. Continue reading
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Train trip to the big city.
I’m a bit of a train nut. This time, however, it was Ry’s idea. So we drove over to Homewood to catch the IC. Great memories for me, my mom and I would take the same line downtown to shop at Field’s. That was when the cars were deep green, noisy, one level, hot, and… Continue reading
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Yippee!!! They’re all back in!!!
Elise and I walked the halls of Carl Sandberg HS last night for our middle daughter’s first semester as a freshman. My takeaways…. I sure hope she has a good pair of shoes for getting through that monstrous place and school lockers haven’t changed much. Got me thinking… with all the changes we’ve seen in the… Continue reading
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On Her Way
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s” C.G. Jung. My #1 is off to college. One more step on her 1000-mile journey into the unknown…. how exciting!!!! And for us? Another milestone, I feel it keenly. The house is just a little quieter. Milestones are funny things. This one, for… Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955