Category: Disability
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I Fell
A lovely, bird song filled spring morning! The world is green, and everywhere there are flowers. Five weeks ago I fell on an invisible step as I left the health food store, became airborne, and broke my femur and fractured my hip. After a brief surgery I now have a new hip joint and a…
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Early May and Migration
It’s May, although if one used the weather as a marker it would still be early April. Today is gray and chill, cold enough the furnace came on. Flowering plants of all types are in full regalia and the annual bird migration, while aa bit delayed, is in full swing. I have finally heard warblers!…
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Breath
A bright, breezy midsummer’s day, the humidity slowly ascending, bringing the possibility of increasingly illusive rain tomorrow. The breeze whips the foliage, casting cinematic shadows through the shallow swale that runs behind our home. I’ve the window by my desk open and that same breeze breathes air into the room, warmth on the exhale and…
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Covid Sunday Blues
Sunday afternoon. Bright sun, milky blue skies, and cool for this time of year. The sun rests a bit higher in the east than a month ago, even as temperatures have fallen. On the marsh and in the bay a thin coating of ice has formed; it swishes with the wind and tide. We’ve continued…
