need I say more?

January 9, 2010
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The Hudsons

January 6, 2010

I would like to point out that is 4:39 pm and it is not yet dark. The days are drawing out, and for that I thank them.
I saw a morning dove and a downy woodpecker today in a the park. The trees were frozen and stiff, the dove motionless and puffed up, and the woodpecker

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January 6, 2010

I was in Acapulco before Christmas with some friends one of whom was wearing rolled up jeans, an untucked shirt and a cap on sideways and I said she looked like a kid from the Our Gang comedies, and she pulled out her phone and showed me this picture of herself taken when she was

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L.A. Dog, December Blossoms, TWO Hawks and My Antonia

December 5, 2009

A happy dog cruisin’ in California on his way to Thanksgiving dinner.

When we got back to the city, all the leaves had been summarily removed from the trees and deposited on the ground, making Riverside Park look gray and wintry and dull. And the idea of moving to California seemed like a brilliant incontrovertible idea.

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Not a Pigeon

November 15, 2009

A female cardinal landed on our balcony today and wanted very much to get in. There are birds you just fall in love with and the female cardinal is one, partly because as a child I watched one hatch her eggs in a nest visible from our porch (the cat unfortunately ate all her babies),

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hail philosophy

November 11, 2009

There’s a great post by Gerald Dworkin in 3quarks daily of short funny philosophical comments. My favorite bit:
Jewish philosophy
1) Logic: P, so why not Q?
2) Ethics : Can implies Don’t
3) Metaphysics_:_This is the best of all possible worlds?

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you never met marshal?

November 9, 2009

okay, okay…so I wrote marshal law instead of martial law. do you know what time it was when i wrote that? I was sleep-blogging. Anyway, for all you know, there is a very bossy person named Marshal who lays down the law here.
Today we had to vacuum and clean the bathrooms and iron the duvet

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juncos

October 31, 2009

During a beautiful rainy walk in Riverside Park the other day, I saw a coupe of juncos–what I know as slate-colored juncos, because that’s what Roger Tory Peterson calls them. I looked them up on my fab iphone birdwatching app so I could listen to their all, and I couldn’t find them because they are

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The Philosophical Dog

October 22, 2009

That scruffy being above is a cairn terrier, which would be quite enough to make me turn to Justin Smith’s wonderful piece on 3quarks daily, but the piece itself, about dogs and philosophy, is fascinating. click here to read it.

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STARLINGS

October 20, 2009

photo by paulhobson.co.uk
Today is day three. The apartment went on the market on Sunday. There were, apparently, 19 groups of people traipsing through, which we were happy about, not so much because we think one of them will buy, or even because we want one of them to buy, but because after all that cleaning,

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