tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54153951263815265002024-03-13T10:54:14.926-07:00penelope leapenelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-69637305150713347912012-12-29T19:58:00.000-08:002012-12-29T19:59:48.645-08:00celebrating a treasure...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">today she is five.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">every day she brightens my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">she greets each day with excitement and joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">she refuses to eat a sandwich without dismantling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">it first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">she skips rather than walks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">she always has pockets full of acorns </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and glass. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">she slept in a santa hat for an entire year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">she kicks my seat in the car relentlessly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">her face is the first thing i see each morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and i wouldn't change one. single. thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">about her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">happy birthday to our treasure.</span></div>
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<br />penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-3263397632049645832012-12-05T20:09:00.000-08:002012-12-05T20:19:01.044-08:00Gladys Kravitz would be proud. <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i've been so neglectful. not to all things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but to the greater world of binary communication like </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">blogging, yes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">instagram is my quick fix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">seeing images of other peoples' lives is a really</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">seductive thing for me. it's like pre-meditated voyeurism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">sanctioned sneak-a-peaks. romanced reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">here's mine.</span></div>
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penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-53636259160826759202012-08-05T08:50:00.000-07:002012-08-05T08:50:58.068-07:00most humble student...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">live without fear of failure; my life would be a </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">whole lot closer to the way i imagine it could be.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">nearly everything i would like to change is only </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">held back by <i>me</i>. fear, worry, self-consciousness,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ego, judgement. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">i was just thinking <i>'tomorrow is another day'</i>,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">but that's not the best way at all.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">all of the WOOD! all yours for just under $20,000.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i'm pretty sure my silly cars couldn't get </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">two blocks with this attached. i would</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it's a toilet float. and it's spray-painted gold.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">around the earth's spin and the sun's grin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my dad picked wild mustang grapes out by the brazos river and my </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">mom and i spent much of the heat of the day making</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of staining anything and everything. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">yelling, 'hurry! run! come here!' and was </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">she was in full scout stance....ready to flee</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">or nab whatever she was yelling about.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">we all high-tailed it over rocks and cactus to </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">where she was. she was yelling, 'there's something,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i couldn't place and my dad came lurking out from the </span></div>
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<br />penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-68872952682035469282012-06-18T20:55:00.002-07:002012-06-18T20:55:29.043-07:00pickin' peas...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">as this spot here. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">kindly mr. vegetable farmer down the highway</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to liven up his soil.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he always lets us come pick pick pick. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">suddenly, my dashboard says i'm not following any blogs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">not one. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">has this happened to anyone else? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">every single link gone. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">boo.</span></div>penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-25281280691674709652012-04-14T14:32:00.001-07:002012-04-14T14:32:57.594-07:00crystal clear....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to see it up and crystal clear. we swam for days, watched</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">when my grandmother was mildly surprised by</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i inadvertently planted beets in my garden this year</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i've never been a fan; stubbornly sticking by</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my childhood line in the sand about them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">remember <a href="http://penelope-lea.blogspot.com/2012/02/brautigan-days.html" target="_blank">this</a>? </span></div>
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<br />penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02817295254548837305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415395126381526500.post-19611442360080646842012-02-19T20:57:00.001-08:002012-02-19T21:06:35.586-08:00sigh. sunday.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it rained and rained this weekend. this morning</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">would end warm and sunny. actually, i </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">be spending the majority of it outdoors.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">could definitely use a dose of this...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i wish i knew where this was. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i have dill coming up <i>everywhere..</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in between every other plant. i let it go</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to seed this past summer, with the idea to attract </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">butterfly eggs. whoops. roxie and i were </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">brother ate chocolate/oat granola. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">eater...get them in the kitchen or the garden.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(like one of mine who is a meat and potatoes man), at least</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">sleepin' in the sun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">never get your day's work done. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">lying in the noon day sun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">leaden, gray, cloudy days always make me think of</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">richard brautigan. maybe because i discovered him</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">while i was living in oregon many moons ago. oregon </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">on bikes in perpetual rain and ending with the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">beauty of brautigan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">this weather suits him perfectly. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><b>“Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain<br /><br />Oh, Marcia,<br />I want your long blonde beauty<br />to be taught in high school,<br />so kids will learn that God<br />lives like music in the skin<br />and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord.<br />I want high school report cards<br />to look like this:<br /><br />Playing with Gentle Glass Things<br />A<br /><br />Computer Magic<br />A<br /><br />Writing Letters to Those You Love<br />A<br /><br />Finding out about Fish<br />A<br /><br />Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty<br />A+!</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2)my mystery spinach. i planted it, but damned if i</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the feed store. threw a bunch of it in some soup tonight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>fantastical</b>:<i>def., <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">may connote unrestrained extravagance in conception or merely ingenuity of decorative invention.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i stumbled across <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/garden/the-smith-mansion-in-wyoming-is-the-stuff-of-legend.html" target="_blank">this article</a> today. the cockamamy </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">house first caught my eye and then i read about the man, mr. smith,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and the family behind the house and that's what really left an impression. he died from a fall off a high balcony during the perpetual </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">construction. the house still has sculptures he </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">built, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">left behind, undisturbed. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">he hauled every bit of that wood himself </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">in a horse trailer. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">those aren't small timbers. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">that brought back a memory of a place in utah with the inspired name</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">, <a href="http://theholeintherock.com/" target="_blank">'hole in the rock'</a>. i was moving a friend</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">spent 12 years dynamiting a 14 room home into the rock.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">little oval leather patch over it with a slit. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">maybe that's how they filled it with 'stuffing'?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my brother's wife's great aunt left her place in texas</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in a public trust when she died rather than keeping </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it in private hands. it's still in the care of the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">family as the board of directors.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">when my uncle died this year, my twin brothers and i met</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">for the funeral and stopped by the land on our</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">drive home. it's so quiet and isolated it feels</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">like a pioneer time warp.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1.the cabin looking over the lake</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">4.sweet split rail zig zag fence</span></div>
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