Category Archives: Music

Fog Does Lift

In the unsettling, unseasonable heat that is this first of April – Where, fully one month too soon, the lettuce is already bolting – Bugsy is having tummy issues again. And I myself have fumbled into the freefloating anxiety that … Continue reading

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Bugs Considers Another Bean; Bean Likewise Vice Verse

Hello reader-beans.  Bugs here again.  Bean has been rocked back on her ass for a few days, by various Bad Things that apparently needed her urgent and bad-tempered attention.  She asked me to tell you she’s doing fine now, though.  … Continue reading

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Bugs Plays The Djembe

Ma.  I know that rhythm.  I want to play it. Bean:  Gosh, Bugs, I don’t know.  You know what a pain in the patooty it is to replace drum-heads.  Remember the little drum I let you play a while back? … Continue reading

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Can This Be Bugs?

This is how Bugs usually reacts to any crink in the weather involving stuff coming out of the sky and making noise. So yesterday there’s me racing to finish cutting the lawn before yet another spring storm. There’s Teresa starting … Continue reading

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Paws Across The Water

A blogmate, living far away from her family of origin, writes of her grandmother’s burial yesterday. http://alifebewhiskered.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-pair-of-pillow-pusses/ This post is dedicated to everybody in that family who’s touched by this passing.  And to the rest of us who have been … Continue reading

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Metaphor Mash-Up

Here are some pictures of Bugs taken shortly after our Tellington session the other day.  You can see how gracious he was. What you can’t see is how full of verve and sass also.  We had to have another little … Continue reading

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A Dash of Tropics, A Dash of Grief

Dear blogmates, the time has come to face up – a little, gently – to sorrow.  This is a freezing dull gray morning in Arkansas, we’re looking for it to snow soon, the holidays are over and the legal project’s … Continue reading

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Ask, Seek, Imagine, Live Long Enough

The “ask, ask, ask” I’m talking about, in the title of this entry, is a quote from Marshall Rosenberg.  I like it.  I hear it as in “seek and ye shall receive,” Matthew 7:7.  Actually Google tells me that a … Continue reading

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