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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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2010
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November
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- Grey Days ... No Thoughts
- Well, it really is upon us ...
- Death and Decay ... Happens to All of Us
- This Post Brought to You by the Letter P
- Doggone it!
- November Rain ...
- The frost is on the pumpkins ... and everywhere el...
- My own form of bee keeping ...
- Chelsea and Gramma ... who's in love, eh?
- More About Singleness After Sixty
- Don't get out much ... but when I do ...
- Movie and Book Reviews
- November at Pike Lake
- Nuthatch
- A Day for Remembering
- Self Portrait
- On Writing or The Freedom to Emit Brain Farts
- Lazy Weekend
- Indoors and Out
- Waking up over tea and email on a Saturday morning...
- Procrastination by Strawberries
- Nimble
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November
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
3 comments:
Thought for the day...from Coco Chanel
via Vanity Fair magazine --
How many cares one loses
when one decides
not to be something
but to be someone.
I remember a good friend saying when she left a high level job that defined(and drained) her that it took years and years before she felt comfortable not being "something" ... because invariably new acquaintances began conversations with "So what do you do?" and she found it terribly self demeaning to have to admit that she was no longer in the work force. Of course she did art ... and wrote but didn't publish ... and read widely ... and made a wonderful home ... and kept her husband, daughter, dog and cockatoo happy ... and was the mainstay of her extended family ... and was the best cook I have ever known ... and one of the kindest neighbours and friends. She was a perfectionist in everything she did ... but it was impossible to sum up what "thing" she was in a sentence suited to a cocktail party ... because she wasn't something. She was somebody.
It's almost impossible to convince most Americans that NOT being famous is OK and thought by many as being preferable.
Explains a lot about that immature country. That any of them would be interested in the least in Sarah Palin et al. is so utterly sad (and scary).
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