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Category: Baltimore
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A special day comes and goes. Friends and family pitch in and show up and laugh and dance. Did they chase away the rain too? Maybe. It's possible. Love can do that! The day before the wedding, "Team B" arranges the flowers.
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This little one is now in his 40's!
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My favorite fountain in Mt. Vernon Place, probably my favorte fountain in the world! The cat tails and the turtle and the playful child, all speak to a simple joy. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland.
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(To paraphrase e.e. cummings…) not all matterings of mind equal one iris The line as I remember it is: not all matterings of mind equal one violet And aren't we lucky to see such things?
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That moment when the wheels lift off the tarmac and you are airbourne, just inches from the ground, you shake your head at the thought of this huge metal can flying and off you go, into the clouds on a rainy day in Baltimore. It's not raining above the clouds, the sun…
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When's the last time you were invited to a picnic? I always say, "Two lips are better than one." (Or maybe I said that once?) The Flower Mart again, in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon Place.
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How lucky to go home to Baltimore and stumble upon the Flower Mart in Mt. Vernon Place, and to spend the afternoon with one of my very favorite people on the planet. I must be living right. The Church in Mt. Vernon Place and the people of Baltimore…
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Vulnerable we are, like an infant. We need each other's care or we will suffer. Poem by St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). From the Penguin publication, Love Poems From God, Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Copyright © 2002 Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission…
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As I have always said, you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette. Like life, one thing leads to another.
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This is one of the guardians outside the Paper Moon Diner in Baltimore. She watches over a fun staff and good food and an eccentric collection of "stuff," as you can see by the hundred or so Pez dispensers in the window behind her. It's amazing what a little imagination can do…