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    Laugh A Little

    … on whispers from within

    Here are the samenesses between Monet and his gardens at Giverny and me and my gardens in Maine. *Monet and I are/were/who-knows-may-be-again humans. *Monet... Read More

    Tags: gardening, Maine gardens, covid, garden design, garden therapy, musings, photography, secrets to happiness

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    Cry A Little

    … on life marching

    The truck is all packed. The last load of his clothes – mostly of which he brought down from his bedroom floor (yesterday) –... Read More

    Tags: parenting, just ponderin', kids leaving home, adulting, mom-ing, musings, empty nest, secrets to happiness

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    Think A Little

    … on hopetimism

    I am an optimist. But not just an optimist. I’m an optimist who dances with hope on a regular basis. Smooshing it all together,... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', hope, 2020, optimism, hope in action, motivation, musings, secrets to happiness

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    Think A Little

    … on kicking ‘but’

    I grew up poor. Now. I recognize, very well, that ‘poor’ is relative. I was ‘that kid’ at school, with the dirty/ripped/stained/badly sized clothing... Read More

    Tags: musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', COVID-19, we're all in this together, working together

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    Think A Little

    … on stepping out with care

    Today I headed out into the world, carefully and taking full advantage of hand sanitizer. Here is what I needed: Birdseed Tulips I know.... Read More

    Tags: isolating, musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, coronavirus, COVID-19

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    Think A Little

    … on my cup and the new year

    The other day I shared a meme on my personal Facebook page. Wait. Short diversion here… To be honest, I’m not sure where the definition... Read More

    Tags: personal responsibility, what's in your cup, musings, joy, secrets to happiness, gratitude, secrets of happiness, maine blogger, maine photographer

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    Cry A Little

    … on an awakening

    There is something wondrously cool about Wait. Just to be all kinds of honest and authentic, that – up there ^ –  is not... Read More

    Tags: Boothbay Harbor, caregiving, processing grief, empty nest, secrets to happiness, grief, just ponderin', southport maine, spring, midcoast maine, spring in maine

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    Think A Little

    … on looking up

    When the writer Anne Lamott was 48 hours away from becoming sixty-one years old, she wrote down “every single thing I know as of... Read More

    Tags: anne lamott, musings, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, perspective, moon, look up, gaining perspective

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    Think A Little

    … on small boats in big seas

    I love this picture. A storyteller, an audience. Chirps and bleeps and ringtones absent. Distracting screens and crowds replaced by the quizzical faces of... Read More

    Tags: musings, red sox, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', divided nation, maine blogger, maine photographer, divisiveness, thoughts, philosophy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on plumbing (and the power of money)

    Yep. That is the Nearly Perfect Husband up there. On a lobster (lob-stah) boat. In the midst, and mist, of a very windy and... Read More

    Tags: musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', midcoast maine, maine blogger, colonoscopy prep, love and marriage

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    Laugh A Little

    … on dingle diner, expanded

    This morning, after putting out food and fresh water at the newest incarnation of Dingle Diner (and announcing that breakfast was served), only little... Read More

    Tags: baby grey squirrels, musings, animal babies, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', southport maine, midcoast maine, Boothbay Harbor, maine photographer, maine photography, wildlife photography

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the totally extraordinary ordinary

    And there it was. A tomato, peeking out from behind a velvety green leaf. Red. Ripe. Ready. And me? Well, I was dancing. Alone... Read More

    Tags: Boothbay Register, just ponderin', southport maine, boothbay maine, Southport Island, maine blogger, maine photographer, The Inn and gardens, maine gardener, musings, growing tomatoes in maine, maine, secrets to happiness

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wHierd

Similar to ‘wHat’, ‘wHy’ and ‘JoHn’. In Dingleville, we tend to pronounce the ‘H’s’ in these words and I don’t know wHy it started, or wHere or by wHom. Sometimes we even add H’s where there are none. It’s wHonderful.

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