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GNTL - NAMI
September 7, 2023
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9/7/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives

NAMI

GNTL - "Full stop this colonial page..."
August 31, 2023
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8/31/2023

GNTL / Grownups Noticing Their Lives

This GNTL is not to make us feel guilty but to remind us of our fire.

GNTL - Commuter Cups & Too Much Stuff
August 27, 2023
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Grownups Noticing Their Lives

8/27/2023

Do you remember your first ‘traveling’ coffee mug?

GNTL - Fonts & Heat
August 25, 2023
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Lil Judy staying out front of the news.

8/25/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives is my “genre” for communicating when my life is pretty full and time for big cohesive thoughts just isn’t happening. Feel free to join in with what you are noting, in the comments.

FIRST THING

Why are fonts getting smaller?

Your Food Pantry Needs Little Help Right Now
July 31, 2023
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7/31/2023

GNTL - Grownups Noticing Their Lives 

Food Pantry – Consider Donating NOW

GNTL - Climate Change Up Close
June 4, 2023
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6/4/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives / Climate change up close and personal 

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I woke up in the middle of last night. Our blast furnace weather moderated a bit yesterday so we’d turned the a/c off and opened the windows. At 3AM the long, slow, heavy train on the tracks down the street from where we live was loud.

GNTL - So Many Words!
May 30, 2023
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5/30/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives - Words!

The month of May might have been above my paygrade. I contributed to a weeks-long writing project in our congregation. I met friends more often than usual to talk and catch up. Two grandkids came for a sleepover last week. Our daughter and her little dog spent last Friday with us. Saturday another grandkid slept over.

GNTL - Kathryn's Garden
May 29, 2023
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5/29/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives - Kathryn’s Garden

My friend Kathryn sent some beautiful photos of her garden to me this morning, I asked if I could post them here and she said yes. 

GNTL - Squirrels & Gardens & the Sonoran Desert
May 18, 2023
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5/18/2023

Grownups Noticing Their Lives

My garden thrives in ignominy.

GNTL - Walk, Mounds, Spirit
May 17, 2023
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Grownups Noticing Their Lives

5/17/2023 

The local TV weather folks talked about ‘a pneumonia front’ for two days. I’d never heard the term before but we all know temps can change fast, right? It’s more generally called life on planet earth. Keep a jacket handy if you can.