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Monthly Archives: November 2016
#dollyofanothercolor
I’ll make this very brief. I was heading downtown on the subway today and sitting right across from me was a little Asian girl about five years old who was clearly in love with her new plaything, a beautiful African-American … Continue reading
Recipe: Green Bean Casserole Made Fresh (No Cans!)
I agreed during the summer to publish this recipe, but what with life and such, I never actually did. I was reminded of it when I heard someone yesterday on the radio talking about what they were having for Thanksgiving … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, cooking, Love, recipes
Tagged Beans, Comfort Food, Green Bean Casserole, Thanksgiving
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An Open Letter to the President-Elect
“I have often … in the course of the session … looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know it … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, health, Love, miracles, prayer, Rebirth, Uncategorized
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Amendment, Health care, Robert F. Kennedy, Trump, U.S. Constitution
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TBT/GTS#2: George “Bud” Falkenberry, Born to Act
Of all these profiles I expect to write – and as you will come to see, there are far too many – this one is the one I want most to get right because, even after more than 30 years … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Death, health, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged acting, actors, AIDS, AIDS quilt, Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, Falkenberry, gone too soon, HIV, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Selma, Upper West Side
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“Consider the Lilies…” 2016
How can you not give your whole heart to the unlikely miracle of the day lily, a flower, as we learned from Superstorm Sandy, that takes fully two years to form and then, in one magnificent thrust of proud determination … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, faith, miracles, Uncategorized
Tagged Cedar House, day lilies, Fire Island Pines, Gardening
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Summer’s Bounty, June to September, 2016
As I write this, there is hard cold rain blowing horizontal out the windows. The pool man was here earlier to tie down the cover for winter and I was reminded by the radio a few minutes ago that this … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, faith, God the Father, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged astilbes, beach house, Cedar House, day lilies, deck plantings, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, Flora, garden, Gardening, hostas, roses, shady gardens
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