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Jan 1, 2022

Reading, New Year’s Post

Books Read 2021 1. Ask Again, Yes Mary Beth Keane 2. Breathe: A Lettter to my Sons Imani Perry 3. The Feminist and the Sex Offender Judith Levine and Erica Meiners 4. A Burning Megha Majumdar * 5. Emergency Contact Mary H.K. Choi 6. Yes No Maybe So Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed …

Books

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Reading, New Year’s Post
Reading, New Year’s Post
Books

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Nov 25, 2021

Thankful For, 2021

Health, and supporting it for myself, my family, my community, and my dear ones The science that delivered us vaccines so quickly and effectively and promises anti-viral treatments imminently Sun and clouds Knowing, caring for, being cared for by friends and family — even, perhaps especially through the challenges of…

Thanksgiving

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Thankful For, 2021
Thankful For, 2021
Thanksgiving

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Jul 19, 2021

Midsummer Wish List

I tend to write a prelude or intro for summer wish list presentation. For nearly a year, every single day, I’ve been writing what I think of as Maps. These essays have chronicled, I guess, life through an extraordinary once-in-a-century (up till now, kind of, in this country, not counting…

Summer

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Midsummer Wish List
Midsummer Wish List
Summer

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Nov 26, 2020

Thankful for, 2020

Loving and being loved Noticing details Being alive Science, public health, front line workers, neighbors in the global sense staying home for one another’s safety January 20, 2021 Deeper work to repair longstanding ills and envision a world where we truly can lift one another up ** This is the…

Gratitude

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Thankful for, 2020
Thankful for, 2020
Gratitude

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Oct 29, 2020

Restless Sleep

I managed to sleep late this morning (nearly eight). I knew, as I slept and wasn’t awake, that I was restless. I needed to pee at one point — and shifted position to fall back to sleep without disruption. For whatever reason, I’m not getting up more nights than not…

Voting

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Restless Sleep
Restless Sleep
Voting

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Sep 30, 2020

Thirty-Three Days

Stupidly, as in, why don’t I think in numbers ever, I signed up to “Run for Ruth.” It’s virtual, of course. The site offered a 5K option. Early in the summer, I’d done a virtual 5K for Girls on the Run, with my tween, Saskia, biking alongside me. It was…

Democracy

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Thirty-Three Days
Thirty-Three Days
Democracy

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Sep 13, 2020

Day 184

Things we did to improve the porch this summer: cleaned it up, had the floor repainted and the trim touched up and the walls power washed, obtained two matching tablecloths, hung fairy lights, got the outlet repaired. Voila! The front porch serves as a summer law office for will signings…

Covid-19

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Day 183
Day 183
Covid-19

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Aug 30, 2020

Summer Wish List

For the first summer in very, very many, I didn’t write a Summer Wish List. I began to do them back when I blogged, motivated by someone else’s list to make my own. I linked to hers, although I no longer remember which blogger’s list inspired me. The list, much like New Year’s Resolutions, worked differently in different years. Sometimes, it filled with links to things I did, places I loved, events that sounded very cool near to where I lived, like the potluck dinner across the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls. I’ve never been to…

Summer

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Summer Wish List
Summer Wish List
Summer

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Aug 16, 2020

Snapshot: Day 156

It’s cloudy. We haven’t had much cloudiness recently, lots of hot sun. All around town, there are new trees planted this spring lining the streets. These trees and others are parched. The trees have moved through all the yellow of spring into the deep, dark green that will hold until…

Covid-19

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Snapshot: Day 156
Snapshot: Day 156
Covid-19

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May 17, 2020

Day Sixty-Five

Quarantine: we have done nine full weeks, two full months, however many meals and cleanups and sweeps of the floor that makes. Shuttering…

Pandemic

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Day Sixty-Five
Day Sixty-Five
Pandemic

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Sarah Buttenwieser

Sarah Buttenwieser

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