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The Last of It

We went down to Lacey today to gather sentimentals from my grandparents’ place. Among the scores, three more Kingston Trio albums. Need to get that needle replaced on our record player! The temptation to get a USB record player is also rather immense. Neither here nor there though.
The little girls […]

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A Long Weekend

Started off Thursday with a 2.5 hour trip to Yakima for my grandfather’s memorial service. I managed to get sunscreen on my face, but neglected the rest of me. Apparently that wasn’t an issue except for one arm — I thought I’d found shade, but I guess I thought wrong. Oops. […]

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Aw, Goddamn.

U. Utah Phillips died Friday.
Folk music is boring. “Black fall, the die doe, blow ye winds, high ho,” hell, that’s boring, but I am a folksinger. This is a folk music organization. You are ostensibly the folk, nest pas? That means we own this song together, right? We have thereby incurred certain social obligation which […]

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Siobhan Is Home

One week later from the day she went, she’s home in a nice little urn with a nice little paw print in clay that the vet’s office made.
That is all.

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And Just Like That

She’s gone. The vet called us first thing this morning to let us know we should come over because it was time & so we went, but she went first. I hope she didn’t feel abandoned, but I think with as fast as she went, it was just that she couldn’t hang on. […]

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Sisters of Mercy


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Memorial


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Memento Mori


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