flic.kr/p/4FgPK The family cabin is slowly collapsing… this photo is from 2005, so things have probably gotten even more dilapidated. My cousins own it and though we used to have access, apparently that’s no longer as simple as asking for the key and checking the calendar. My oldest cousin tried to sell it a few years back, causing shock and dismay. Yet it’s a pretty big tax payment each year, so I can see why he’d want to sell. Reportedly he sold off the piece of the property where I stood to take this… there’s a fancy new vacation home…
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I haven’t sewn anything in months, but have the T shirts, tools, and batting to make this. For myself. Because it’s chilly now.
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More than a week ago, it was my birthday, so once again, what is it to me? 25 years ago, at a very advanced and nearly-spinsterly age, I married the love of my life, David. We met in Colorado, and a little more than a year later, we got married in Colorado, at a B&B that’s now closed and for sale. Much has changed since this photo was taken – my mom on the left died in 2006, and my mother-in-law Leah died in 2012. The Alps closed a few years ago; we stopped by on our June road trip…
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02 — Read on onlineradiobox.com/us/rielreverie/playlist/
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The Santa Clara Men’s Cross Country team is a glorious sight to behold. The team’s headshots have recently been circulating across social media, and the goofy photos — all featuring some sort of ridiculous mustache — are a huge hit. The East Bay Times explains: The growing of mustaches for team photo day is a… — Read on boingboing.net/2022/09/28/the-santa-clara-mens-cross-country-team-photos-are-a-glorious-sight-to-behold.html
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From a bookish, asthmatic child to crack addict to mainstream recording powerhouse, Coolio charted a path to hip-hop superstardom like no other. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/arts/music/coolio-rapper-dead.html Sad news for music fans. Fans of fine action movies will look up his Wikipedia listing and wonder if they should watch his movie “Submerged” out of respect. They should not. Nil nisi bonum, my dudes.
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The events around Queen Elizabeth’s death have unfolded with an astonishing amount of formal, choreographed movement. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/arts/dance/choreography-queen-funeral.html
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The full order of service for the committal of Queen Elizabeth II at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on 19 September — Read on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/18/the-queen-order-of-service-for-the-committal-at-st-georges-chapel
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Buckingham Palace has released the Orders of Service for Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and committal service on Monday. — Read on www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/uk/order-of-service-queen-funeral-intl-gbr/index.html
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I’ve been remembering a lot of things today and in the days since the Queen’s passing, and today being the anniversary of 9/11, remembering that, too. The British are very, very good at remembering things. We’re… not but there are some memorials that we do well. Pearl Harbor is one. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is another. Some of the 9/11 memorials are meaningful to me personally (as I’m in travel, today always brings back memories of the terrible days of silence in the skies above Chicagoland during the nationwide ground hold). In November 2010, David and I took…