Game of Thrones – Learning To Be Whole

November 20, 2016

Wide Awake

I woke to a crash at 5:00 this morning. My daughter’s cat has finally managed to do what I have been anticipating for some weeks now—she broke some shit. I investigated the crash and found that the beautiful orchid that was thoughtfully gifted to me after my recent hip surgery was currently lying on the

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September 14, 2016

Dances with Dragons

It is no secret that I love the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin is genius in so many ways, and the show follows suit. And for many reasons, I wonder how Martin connects in the ways that he does to the plight of the marginalized in his medieval and magical imagined

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July 24, 2016

Food Chain

I’ve watched this progression happening inside my home over the past month or so. The container garden in my sun porch at some point brought little flying bugs into the environment. Whether they came from the soil or from the great outdoors is unclear, but they arrived, nonetheless. And I have tried several remedies that

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February 9, 2016

Production

Yesterday I deleted some people from my friends list on Facebook. This isn’t uncommon, as far as my activities in a normal week might go. It is uncommon that I have such a visceral reaction to the things people say that get them removed from the list. These people clearly hit a nerve. So, I

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