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… on advenditures

June 28, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

This morning, super duper early, I headed out on an adventure. Because the other day my friend Chris (a.k.a., ‘ChrisChrisChris‘) called and asked me if I was comfortable getting up very early in the morning (to which I replied, “Um, I am kind of an expert at it as I have stumbled out of bed and nearly fallen over the cliff in front of our house – on many occasions – trying to take pictures of the sunrise.” (I did not […]

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… on the acting locally thing

June 26, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

Okay… I’ve given up. Maybe one day every single thing will be unpacked and put away… but strategy right now for the wedding is a good one I think… Hide it. This decision to take a break from the ‘moving’ has allowed me to live closer to the idea of ‘moved’, which has been kind of awesome. Each year that we’ve owned The Inn*, we’ve waited for the kids to get out of school, spent a couple of days packing […]

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… on touching dreams

June 15, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

So… you know we moved to Maine. Well… I know I know I moved to Maine. No… it’s not the boxes still unpacked in my bedroom (I’m ignoring them, hoping they will go away. But they are not. Dicks.) And no… it’s not because I can smell that heady mixture of salt and pine and spruce. Nope. It’s not because I can hear – right now in fact – the bubbubbub of a lobster boat’s diesel engine as its crew drops their […]

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… on landslides and new landscapes

June 3, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

There’s this song that’s been following me around for about a year, maybe a little more. Creepily showing up at the oddest times, sometimes with grating frequency. The Dixie Chicks sort of revived it a few years back, and had either a yellow malleable or grayish white noncorroding ductile metallic element song. It went gold or platinum… I’m just messing with you because I’m cranky because I’m still waiting for the coffee maker to beep. Oh! There it goes. Hang on […]

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… on the rand cove monster

April 14, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

So… yesterday. One of the things that is hard to resist, even when I am yearning for more time under the covers, is the sunrise. The Inn* faces east… so much so that – just as the sun is about to rise above the spruces and pine-z, it blasts light into our bedroom. I’m telling you, it’s so bright that its really hard to stay asleep. Though, yes, we do manage to do just that (and we are successful surprisingly often)). But the […]

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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 an awakening

April 11, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

There are so many firsts this year, now that Self Proclaimed Perfect Boy, Gabe has headed off to college. Some I anticipated, but others – like my first spring on Southport Island – have come as a surprise. I’ve been up here in springtime, over the years, but only for day trips – leaving early in the morning to meet someone working on the house or gardens, and taking off right after the meeting to be home for kids or […]

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… on life stuff, all of it and all at once… always

April 4, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

This morning we awoke to a pop and the sound of our beloved fan, the one we turn on each night for its pleasing hum, spinning down. Full disclosure: That pleasing hum is a side benefit of our fan’s original purpose of masking, if only slightly, the dulcet sounds of JoHn’s snoring purring as well as the mitigating of any possible mental-pause sweating blushing that I might experience, if I experienced that sort of thing. Anyway, the power had gone out. JoHn […]

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