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Just a Thought

Posted on 2015-11-07 by GirlZoot

And many times throughout her life Sandy knew with a shock, when speaking to people whose childhood had been in Edinburgh, that there were other people’s Edinburghs quite different from hers, and with which she held only the names of … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on 2015-11-04 by GirlZoot

That’s the trouble with living things. Don’t last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together… —Neil Gaiman/The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

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Just a Thought

Posted on 2013-07-10 by GirlZoot

She seemed even smaller and more delicate than I remembered, or maybe it was just that it had been a long time and people always seem larger than life in our memories, their strengths somehow exaggerated in their absence. —Amber … Continue reading →

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Too Much

Posted on 2013-06-17 by GirlZoot

The challenge today was toys.  It is weird how much of our history gets wrapped up inside of our toys, inside of our stuff.  I look at all my things and I’m getting to this point where I should get … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on 2013-01-02 by GirlZoot

The living know that, at daybreak, the soul will leave them and make its way to the places of its past—the schools and dormitories of its youth, army barracks and tenements, house razed to the ground and rebuilt, places that … Continue reading →

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