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… on delayed processing

May 25, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

Get coffee… or wine, then sit down. I’m just sayin’. There are jumbles everywhere in my life right now. Jumbles of books… or chords… or books and chords. Jumbles of pots and pans, mixed with folders and stacks of my ever shifting collection of greeting cards, some in plastic so they all slide off of each other toward some other pile, making an even more diverse Jumble. Which is also called a Politically Correct Jumble. I realized last night, talking […]

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… on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups

May 20, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

I’m not sure if that magnet, which sits above Gronk’s* gas tank filler upper door, is about Marshal Dillon Dingle, or about me. I suppose it’s about him, literally (yep, he flunked his first time through), and me more figuratively – but only because I never actually attended something called ‘obedience school’. Being a rather irreverent participator in life, however, it fits perfectly. Which is probably why I am currently in the middle of the selling-closing-moving of either a house […]

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… on nicknames lived up to

May 11, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the Disposable Shack for so long. It all began… well, actually I don’t remember how it all began. I think it was as we were making the decision that The Inn – our Maine house that was once (in the early 1900s – really an inn, but is not really an inn anymore… anyway, I think it […]

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… on every man for himself

April 28, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

That is not a rat. It’s Tony Soprano, a made man on Southport Island. Tony is, in fact, a mink. An American one. I know, I know, based on his name and inferred occupation you thought he was Italian. Common mistake. And also racist. But this is not about Tony Soprano not being a rat. This is about an actual rat. One I never got a photo of for reasons that will become clear to you as I tell you a […]

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… on dawn

April 13, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

We live on a ball that weights 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – thirteen septillion, one hundred seventy sextillion – pounds… and yet floats in space. When it turns just so, a star’s light shoots across… bringing beams of warmth, along with a new day. And some people still don’t believe in magic. Thanks for readin’. As always, come on over to Just Ponderin’s Facebook page to comment ❤

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… on a good morning

April 11, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

The little beach on the island is quiet in the early mornings and late afternoons, even in summer. But in the midst of the busy season, the shells and pieces of sea glass are far fewer in number, constantly collected by treasure hunters, big and small. In spring, before the crowds come, the sea glass – smooth and untouched – exists in small gatherings, here and there, as if plotting the coming season. Perhaps scheming on where to lay themselves out […]

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… on alternative news (part 2 of…)

February 5, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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… on apple pride

December 10, 2016 by Lisa Dingle

Yesterday, a Christmas miracle happened. I was cleaning Self-Proclaimed Perfect Boy Gabe’s and Number One Son Sam’s bedroom (yes, to ready them for the Christmas blankets and decorations that will greet them when they get home (it’s a compulsion))… anyway I went into Gabe’s closet to put something in one of his inside-the-closet drawers… and there it was. An old Apple iPhone box, one from years ago. I stopped as the memory hit me. Christmas morning. A huge box in […]

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… on feelin’ drift-y

November 15, 2016 by Lisa Dingle

Down by the dock in Maine, for more than a decade, has been this piece of driftwood. It sits on this mossy outcropping of ledge, looking out at the sea from wHence it came (side note, I looked up whence (lower case ‘h’ because you can’t find it with an upper case one) and it turns out we humans have been using it all wrong for, like, ever! Even Gandalf blew it in Lord of the Rings when he wanted to […]

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