Tag: moments
member name: Julie L.
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February 17, 2008 06:18 AM EST --
Six swans flew overhead as I stood basking in the uncharacteristically warm February morning sunshine just outside the side door to my island cottage. They flew so low over my head that it seemed . . .
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April 15, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
The snow drops dangle their weary heads over the softening ground which is already giving way to crocus, daffodil and even tulip shoots. For those of you who aren't into bulbs, this means in translation . . .
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April 30, 2008 07:26 AM EDT --
Spring seems always to be one step ahead of me. Last week I noticed some of my bees frantically flying around in search of space. It has been a warm spring and they have been industriously reproducing . . .
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May 04, 2008 03:47 AM EDT --
Everywhere I step on my island at the moment a salad is waiting. Virgin green leaves that have just unfolded and not yet been toughened by age and the heat of the summer are first class ingredients . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:44 AM EST --
It was something that could neither be created nor destroyed and I had just tuned into it. That voice was love.
I'm posting snippets from the memoir I am writing which will be available . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:17 AM EDT --
The soft summer breeze is blowing luxury in through the open window in my island study. My bees are buzzing in the bushes just below, reminding me that summer in a true Scandinavian sense is not just . . .
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October 21, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
The Canada geese on the horizon ruffle their wings in preparation for flight. Suddenly the leader of the flock lets out an unmistakable cry and in a miracle of natural engineering, unfolds his . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:49 AM EDT --
The waves lap gently up onto the shore and lightly kiss my wooden kayak which rests on the stony beach. A single hanging birch branch sways lightly in the wind like a dancer waking up to a new day. The . . .
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August 06, 2008 06:08 AM EDT --
It is still summer holiday time, but nature has already turned its sights toward the autumn. Yesterday as the wind spattered rain against the window panes, and we watched our warm summer lake water being . . .
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September 26, 2008 09:15 AM EDT --
Wellness seems like one of those things that we have the privilege of worrying about when times are good. When they aren't, it gets tossed on that pile of irrelevancies that fly out the window when . . .
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July 17, 2008 06:12 AM EDT --
The forested small islands of Lake Mälaren, my home in Sweden, have turned a deep, dark green as though to call my attention to them. "Your frivolity on the water will end and . . .
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August 17, 2008 03:51 AM EDT --
Yesterday I made cloudberry jam. "What's that?" or "so what", you might quite legitimately say. Let me explain. For some years now, I have walked past the jars of cloudberry preserve . . .
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September 16, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
It was barely seven in the evening and night was already falling. A chill wind blew over the surface of the water and made it shiver in small ripples. I sat at the window of my island cottage . . .
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