slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Wonderfulness
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin This past week was some wild ride. After a weekend of pleasant social occasions, including some of the best roasted oysters ever, I braced myself for the first day of classes at work on Monday, constantly reminding myself that…
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Day one: I leave Raleigh Durham airport and wonder at the landscape below as I fly to Portland, Oregon. The sky is clear most of the way and when I leave the mostly tree-covered land of the southeast the patchwork patterns of the farmland translate to fiber and cloth in my head. I trace the…
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On Saturday Sandy and I attended a sweet wedding in a little coffeehouse on the riverfront in Wilmington, NC. My friend JoJo and I have been friends for longer than either of us can remember – probably since we were babies in the nursery at our church. Because same-sex marriage finally became legal in North…
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A walk back to the cabin on Monday morning.
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When I arrived in Portland, Oregon on the evening of August 21, I was met by my ray of sunshine friend, Cat. We went to her beau’s place, where he grilled succulent wild king salmon for us in the courtyard of his Pearl District apartment building. We relaxed with wine outside while he serenaded us…
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Sandy’s man cave is being divided into a second bathroom and the rest is going to be re-floored and painted. It’s had this god-awful 80s wallpaper since we bought the house. I’m a little afraid that the wallpaper might be what is holding the plaster together in the wall, but whatever. So far I have…
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After two years, I finally managed to pick a ripe Cherokee Purple tomato from the Back Forty. This is what should always be done with the first sun-warmed tomato from your garden: Sandy and I have gone out to eat a little more than usual lately. Here’s our supper on the upper patio at M’Coul’s.…
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These rugs that we bought during our June vacation from Wild Spirit Gallery in Pagosa Springs, Colorado will go on our walls, not the floor: Weaver: Marina Gonzalez Design: “Diez Pajaros” Dyes: colorfast analine Weft: wool Weaver: Ricardo Gutierrez Design: “Pasillo de la Mesa” Dyes: colorfast Lanaset Weft: wool
slowly she turned 