Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "simplicity"
Catherine Bussiere: Green
It’s been raining non stop for days grey sky, puddles drizzle, showers cats and dogs buckets away in the city cozy in the warmth of my sister’s house I look out the window every morning at her backward garden drenched and long for sunshine I need to put flowers in and a few veggies no need to rush I know I know this morning I stepped out protected by the roof of the front entrance I clicked away at the nearby greenery various shapes and shades of green tender, dark, lined, wet it’s all so pretty I … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: Happy Mother’s Day!
I was 24 when I had my first son I remember being pregnant at the time and having both this beautiful inner feeling of life forming inside me but also, being young and filled with other dreams, this idea that it was it, I would be a mother for ever and nothing else a strange mix you may think but none the less true I’d wanted to be a photographer and a filmmaker an artist of some kind A mother I … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: Sunny Sunday
it’s a gorgeous morning the one we’ve all been waiting for around here sunny, no clouds, it will be warm this was a pancake morning my husband makes the best I’ll tell you what he does he puts way more eggs then the recipe calls for separate the whites from the yolks beats the whites until light and fluffy than gently adds it to the pancake mixture (egg yolk, flour, milk, melted butter, vanilla – no baking soda or powder) it’s like eating a cloud filled … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: Grow a Farmer
Over the past few years slowly but surely there has been a movement of young men and women that have educated themselves by school, trade or self about the essence of who we are our very core, implanted in us to grow and gather our own food a forgotten art Taken care of by something so big that it has lost sight and so have we of natural beauty and perfection in a need to control and profit our health and our environment has been jeopardized But it is so … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: April 14th
another grey / white / brown week end the birds this morning aren’t impressed they go about their business with no great chorus I dreamed last night I was pregnant my pregnancy days being over I wondered I often don’t remember my dreams but for once I want to look into it’s meaning I search Dream interpretation: being pregnant The first thing I read is: “At its core, this dream is about creativity” I like this answer I actually love it I stop my search I could find … Read entire article »
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answering a letter about being a young mother and hooking rugs
Dear Diary, I have had lots of interesting responses and conversations about the question I posed Why have knitting and quilting have become so popular, while rug hooking remains more obscure. Today I even got a beautiful handwritten letter in the mail from Carrie Clem a reader in Aylesford , Nova Scotia. In it she asked me to write a bit about when I was a young mother with small chidren and how I managed … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: April 7th
it’s sunny, no clouds I go outside with my camera Several birds came back this past week Robins, all over the yard chirping away My cats are like ducklings in water just so excited by all the movement and life outside I go to the greenhouse and see that the mache is doing well Mache is a type of lettuce, tender and surprisingly hardy It’s been there all winter I walk around looking at my yard, the garden, the pond Everything still, slowly waking from … Read entire article »
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Catherine Bussiere: Happiness
happiness is a sunny day with a high of 8˚ after a month of stormy weather all my kids plus one home for Easter pussy willows found on the morning walk a cat rolling in the dirt with a big smile on it’s face the smell of turkey in the oven baklavas left over from yesterdays bake a cheesecake coming over for dinner my daughter walking around with bunny ears even though she is 16 a walk at the beach ice floats melting away the … Read entire article »
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