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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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2009
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October
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- Nanowrimo
- Update on Chaos
- Too Too Busy ... but Wired
- Madness ...
- Ivan E. Coyote
- Messy Scenes
- Achey -- Fluey -- More another day
- knob and trim detail
- the purple chair at Felena's
- the table top at Felena's
- Middle of October
- the funky chicken bread box
- Always a good idea to hang out near babies in chai...
- Giving Thanks
- Doesn't anyone have time to play ball?
- Pike Lake Road leading around the lake
- Hard to leave home these days
- Happiness is having a job that allows you to play ...
- eric working on the garden stone ... he got to pla...
- Just the little chair ... like a milking stool wit...
- Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts ...
- N Degrees of Separation
- The hand made table and chairs I bought from Taz
- a door at La Foret in Wakefield
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October
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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:
This is AWESOME!! I LOVE it!!!!
OMA!!! That's beyond absolutely beautiful!!!! WOW!!!
Thank you both ... and Fraulein ... I have a story I think you might be able to use. It comes from Girl Guides in Kenya ... about a girl who was helped by the Guides to stand up and fight against a serious social problem in schools ... she was able to stop a headmaster from sexually assaulting and threatening young female students because she was able to go to the powers-that-be and tell them what he did to her ... a case of the "wrong kind of touching" ... it was the second school ... and he had left behind a pregnant student in the previous school. The power of the Guides must be really wonderful because teachers in Kenya are regarded very highly so it took a lot of self respect for this girl to tell the authorities.
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