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Shortest Day, Longest Night

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:25:51 +0000

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:5 These past few years I’ve been heavy on the ‘longest night’ part of reflecting upon life’s unfolding during the winter solstice. So herein I am pondering more of the ‘shortest day’ side of things. I like sitting this side […]

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I MISS MY COFFEE!

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 01:49:50 +0000

Been up and down with that lousy respiratory bug for the past four weeks…Hubby, too…Been unable to taste or smell for at least the last two weeks (well really only ten days and counting but still)…Hubby has his back…Been on a self-imposed coffee fast because I can’t taste it so why bother?…Hubby doesn’t get the […]

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Spider Webs, Jacob’s Ladder and 'Losing the Strand'

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 23:30:38 +0000

The first full summer we lived in the South we encountered massive and prolific webs of this indigenous species of spider, the Golden Orb. The spiders themselves get to be quite large and are wickedly beautiful…meaning, these are gloriously colored arachnids that come equipped with some seriously sharp and long legs. What I found most […]

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New Book Release: Home to Cedar Branch by Brenda Bevan Remmes

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 03:45:03 +0000

Waiting for Brenda Of course wouldn’t you know, the day’s dark grey skies decided to pour forth a drenching rain the moment I stepped out of the car. Brenda and I were meeting that morning at the FloTown Starbucks on Palmetto for a quasi-interview, so I wanted to get there a bit before the […]

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Giving Voice: Woman In A Café (poem)

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 02:25:00 +0000

While reading through Andrew James Murray’s newly published collection of poetry Heading North I was particularly struck by his poem, Woman in a Café. Inspired by the memory of a woman who used to come into the café he frequented during his lunch break while working in Manchester, her fingerless mittened hands clutch bunched plastic […]

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Goat-Joe Love & Laura's Sumatra (part two)

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:51:59 +0000

Until a few years ago, I thought beans and roast were one and the same. This misconception can be excused since beans and roast tend to be labeled interchangeably within the commercial realm, causing confusion to even the most discriminating coffee-lover. Bean bags labeled either ‘Sumatra, Aceh, French, Italian or Dark’ are the ones which […]

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Goat-Joe Love & Laura’s Sumatra (part one)

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 02:11:33 +0000

By now, most of you know about my goat obsession. So it was to my great delight when I discovered goats had a hand, or should I say hoof, in the creation of a long-time vice of mine: coffee. Believe it or not, goats played a pivotal role in the historical first-time human interaction with […]

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The Prophet and the Gift

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:37:05 +0000

from-Swimming with Swans: vignettes of our three year journey between homes 6/2009 ~ 6/2012 April 2010 Many of us remember John Breaux, a unique individual who was beloved within the mainstream community as he traveled daily all over the Louisville/Lafayette area in CO on his bicycle. Spending his days filling the plastic grocery bags […]

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