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I couldn't help but notice . . .: What more can I do?

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Thursday, January 2, 2014. What more can I do? Often when I am talking to people about doing things for others the phrase, "It's the least I can do" comes up. I know I have said it myself when commenting about a hour spent here, a food bank donation made there, some things dropped off at a shelter or clothing depot, a casserole or soup made for an ailing friend or a bereaved family. Pali), which means "perfection of giv...

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I couldn't help but notice . . .: November 2013

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Having it all . . . But stop, please stop. Barking about having been saluted with “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings” instead of “Merry Christmas”, and declaring that those words mean taking sides in what some people have called (thanks, Fox News and Bill O’Reilly! The “war on Christmas”. Of the masses in the western world. Sit quietly. Observe or don’t. That is having it all.

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I couldn't help but notice . . .: December 2013

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Monday, December 9, 2013. Surprised. Those who know Julie and me well know that we rarely answer our telephone. No" And the call goes to voicemail. We have the same experiences that anyone in the general public has with telemarketers, surveys and robo-calls. We have caller ID so that, of course if it's a sibling or child we answer or call right back. We are not anti-social (at least not completely yet! Laura Best, author.

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I couldn't help but notice . . .: July 2011

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Monday, July 11, 2011. Summer is an "in the moment" time. It's so easy for me to neglect something like my blog when the days are sunny and my garden, friends, dogs and the road all beckon. Oh, I'm writing bits and parts of stories almost everyday, but nothing seems to compel me to just sit and write until the point where I can allow a piece to go public. Good thing I don't have deadlines, eh? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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I couldn't help but notice . . .: September 2012

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Friday, September 21, 2012. Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." Victor Hugo. I just don't know if I can depend on my memory sometimes. R planetary order in the solar system and colours of the spectrum. If you were one of the more than six thousand students I encountered over my thirty-two years of teaching high school, chances are if you give me your last name, I can retrie...

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I couldn't help but notice . . .: May 2011

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I couldn't help but notice . . . Observations and reflections on the world around me. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just . . . Since I was very young, I have had an intrinsic understanding of the power of a smile. As babies, we humans react through our tiny eyes' blurry first vision to the eyes and smiles of our adoring parents. Experiments have shown ". An infant is able to. Otherwise, she smiled and others responded in kind. Then the skies will seem more blue,.

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Bloomingwriter: Gardening in Nova Scotia: June 2014

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Red and White for Canada Day! Happy birthday to the best country in the world, Canada, my home and native land! To celebrate Canada Day, July 1st, here are a selection of flowers in our flags colours of red and white. (The flags above are at Grand Pré National Historic Site lookoff and feature the Acadian Flag, the United Nations Flag, the Canadian Flag, the Nova Scotian Flag, and the Mikmaq First Nations flag.). Love them and Leave Them: Tricky Plants I Enjoy Tormenting Myself With. Its always exciting ...

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Bloomingwriter: Gardening in Nova Scotia: Garden Blogger's Geography Project: Wrapup Pt 2!

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Garden Blogger's Geography Project: Wrapup Pt 2! Nothing like supper and a nap to renew one's energy, is there? If we had a prize for "most entertainingly original" post, I think it would have to go to Ottawa Hortiphilia for the highly amusing poem. At the beginning of OH's post about our nation's capital city. It's a lovely city, if somewhat challenging for gardeners. Our friend Kylie. I learned that Royal, Illinois, got its name from a sign on a railcar advertising baking powder. With her musings, and ...