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Apparently a hurricane is something to pay attention to... coming from California and now living in Provincetown, Massachusetts I am wholly unprepared for this potential event. I thought if it's like earthquakes you stand in a doorway or get under a table and it's pretty much ok after a few minutes. Not so here. The boats are coming out of the water, my neighbors across the street on the beach side have boarded up their...

Ireland

revchristie

Ireland is a wonderful part of the world.... at least the glimpse that I had over two weeks. The green was even more amazing than expected and the fairy sightings a lot less than I expected. The highlights were definitely in the countryside although the traditional music 'trad' as they call it here in the pubs, was a much deeper experience than what I expected too. The players are so focused, they align with eachother in a...

Mother and Child

revchristie

There can hardly be a more frequent study in art than Mother and Child. I imagine it is because of its inherent beauty and the truth it represents. An idea in the mind of a mother and father takes form in the body of a child. The mother nurtures and cares for the child and is so greatly rewarded when she can hold this manifest idea in her arms. And yet it is simpler than...

Life without Bread

revchristie

My naturopathic doctor has me on a rotation diet. It means you eliminate foods that your body showed some inflamatory response to from an extensive blood test. You avoid the list of foods for four weeks and then painstakingly add them back in --watching your bodies response, swelling, congestion, blood pressure, and other 'allergic' reactions. My list included mushrooms, green beans, egg whites, almonds, brussel sprouts, lichee fruit, lima beans,yeast, wheat, gluten, hops. Now eight...

Meanwhile

revchristie

My microsoft outlook says, "Baby Burton arrives!!!" and next to that it says '2 days overdue', just like my appointment to finish an assignment says '10 minutes overdue'. I see that he is not on my calendar but on his own. Meanwhile, we have explored the town of Marblehead and loved it, gone to a night tour of Salem and learned what it is and is not and enjoyed some wonderful walks in the neighborhood...

Becoming grand

revchristie

I wonder what he will be like, my grandson. I wonder what I'll be like as his gmama as I plan to call myself. I was thinking the other day, what a milestone of life this is... a role change or a role addition or looking at it another way, life just continuing forward as it does. In my little world, something is becoming grand. I gave birth some 32 years ago to a sweet...

32 years ago today....

revchristie

My twin children were born and my life was changed forever and in every good way. First they taught me patience, then they taught me affection and then they showed me acceptance and now to my amazement and joy they just love me. As imperfect of a mother I have been, my eldest children love me perfectly. I am so blessed that they were born and that at 19 I was given a chance to reset...

Four more years!

revchristie

Well actually, I'd like four score and seven at least! Does anyone know what four score is? Getting to the point, I am celebrating four years of legal marriage to my beautiful wife Jane. Even as I write it, I am surprised, surprised that I am married and surprised that I am so happy. Maybe delighted would be a better word. There is no mystery why I'm happy with Jane, she is happiness encased in...

It comes to this?

revchristie

I thought today I'd be writing about the moving truck that is almost at our doorstep in Provincetown Massachusetts where I now live. I thought I'd be writing about how I haven't missed any of the stuff that's in the truck and how I have been so delighted by this small village of artists, writers and an eclectic group of visitors. I imagined I'd write about how this place feeds the creative soul and how...

Peptides

bunnylover

Several years ago I saw the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know!” [Check it out if you've never seen it] and learned about the existence of peptides. I was so excited! Peptides are these wonderful things, They are chemicals that your brain physically manufactures to relay whatever emotions you're experiencing to every cell of your body. Peptides are created for all sorts of emotions- peace, worry, anxiety, anger, fear, victimization, happiness, worthiness, satisfaction, resentment,...

The Creative Instinct of Inspired Humans Amazes Me Once More

bunnylover

<font face="Arial">There were so many stories that I have always wanted to tell but I typed so slowly it was hard for me to communicate my ideas as quickly and as richly as I wanted. I was always editing down and abbreviating to reduce the number of key strokes. It made the written versions less satisfying and let less of the inspiration shine through. So now </font>I have a new voice recognition software [DragonSpeak10] to...

My 1000 things

revchristie

In two weeks I'll be heading east. East to New York for a work day and then a little further east to Provincetown, Massachusetts. Provincetown, Massachusetts will be my new home. I have lived in Callifornia since I was three years old. To me it feels like this is my only place. I grew up in the Silicon Valley and the bay area. San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Campbell, Mountain View, Fremont and now Half Moon Bay....

Everything Aligns for My Good

bunnylover

I had a dream the other night and there were squares with patterns and colors constantly shifting and moving in rows and columns like a massive rubik's cube only moving in two dimensions. I saw one square with a flower drawn on it shift to the right, out of my field of vision. I felt a loss and wondered why it was gone then a voice said "Why do you concern yourself with the goings...

Indonesia--a holy land?

revchristie

In Indonesia someone said to me that there are two kinds of weather rain or no rain. There was often rain and there were mosquitoes and bats to eat the mosquitoes and walking merchants who surrounded you within an inch of your life, pleading, sometimesyelling, thrusting objects some ordinary, a few extraordinary to make their daily wage. There was the temple Borobodour at sunrise, the Stupas the Buddhas, the vistas, the mist. There was glorious...

Simplify, simplify, Thai style

revchristie

My brother Dick and his wife Chan Penn moved to Thailand some years ago. They had lived in the silicon valley for decades and decided to return to Chan Penn's homeland. I finally made the trek across the globe to see them in their new life and enjoy the restaurant they built on the beach. They started with one small building, a few tables and chairs. By the time I arrived there were two beautiful...

72 hours in Saigon

revchristie

Saigon, otherwise known as Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The flight on Asia Airlines was great from Singapore, only two hours and they served a gourmet lunch! The taxi stand que had no order but we eventually got one just the same. The driver wanted to see the address where we were going but once we hit the dirt road he seemed to know his way. Over our heads was a tangle of wires which...