Tag: love
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Vérités
I am straightening up the kitchen today, when I find this list written on a powder blue post-it note. Water plants Feed animals Paint houses Don’t break your things I’ve noticed this errant piece of paper laying around on the side table for weeks. I’ll move it to my husband’s…
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La Boule Azurée
I will state for the record that I love purple. There was a time in my early teens when I was trying to be grown-up and thought that purple was too childish. In my quest for maturity, I swapped purple for navy blue and burgundy. These seemed more respectable. But as my 10-year-old asked me…
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Rando affreuse
Today Bobby and I took an ugly hike. I’m not exaggerating. The Peygros-Grasse trail was overgrown, not well-marked, foul-smelling in parts, and really ugly. We walked down an old road for well over a kilometer before we reached the trail head. As I gazed down this narrow side trail, I felt like we had gone…
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Je me souviendrai
Will I remember that today I am a few minutes late for pick-up at my son’s school. Will I remember the overfilled parking lot, brimming with poorly parked cars and vans. How it always seems to be fathers who stop right there in the roadway to get their children with no regard to others waiting…
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Au bord de la rivière
The rush of the river mutes any attempt at conversation. So, we fix our gazes forward and pick our way along the overgrown trail that skirts along the riverside. Our feet graze the edge of the river and then climb a good ten meters above it. Rising and falling, twisting and turning as we make…
40 Weeks in France 