12/12/12 and my Facebook Friends
What does this date mean in numerology? “It’s just a cute day,” said Underwood Dudley, a retired professor of mathematics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and author of “Numerology.” Today I celebrate having 2102 Friends on Facebook. I thought I would fly in the face of fate and manage to collect 2012 friends on 12/12/12. Why not? May even buy a lottery ticket today. Thank you friends, for hanging out for my stencil giveaway, my holiday tutorial hop, for checking out my teaching schedule for 2103, for reading the interview and entering the giveaway on...
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Fires and Journals, and a winner
Colorado has been on fire for most of this month. This week the fires came close to my house, and the houses of very good friends. My eyes and lungs were burning, it was impossible to go outside, so my daughter and I headed to Lake McConaughy, Nebraska. This lake is only four hours from our house and we have never been there, so off we went. We forgot to take books. How do readers like us forget books? Our time there was an exercise in simplicity: we had no internet, no computer and nothing to read. I did thankfully have my journal. We swam the first couple of days, in 108°, but at least...
Read MoreSummer Camp
Today is my birthday. It is a fine day, already showing promise of being a reasonable day in the mid-70s (yesterday was 100°). I hope to spend it in a creative and relaxing way. Hard to beat what I have been doing, I have to say. Last week my mother and my sister Linden were here, and we all went on our annual pilgrimage to the YMCA at Estes Park. Our kids go to camp while we make things. Here is our cabin. Here is our breakfast. We made dolls. We made fantastic, fabulous dolls with their own...
Read MoreMy Word for 2012 in Haiku
My word for 2012 is perspective. Here is my whale mantra and my haiku to symbolize that word. This is a combo of my photography, a drawing I did of a whale, maps, clip art and Photoshop collage. When I was in California last month I took my family whale watching. We saw lots of bottle nosed dolphins, and Rizzo dolphins, but no whales. I was disappointed. When I came home, I realized that the whales were there, making their migration to the warm waters of Southern Baja in Mexico, whether I saw them or not. The might have been deep under the water of our boat. Change your perspective Turn,...
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