Ostara and the Moon of Mourning Saturday gratefuls: Kate wanting to visit the fields of Heather around Inverness. SeoAh and her smile. The Grateful Dead shabbat last night. Ripple.* Mourning in the Mountains with CBE and CBE. Kate breathing freely, walking with purpose once again. Sparks of Joy: Vaccines. Mobile Critter Care. There are ripples […]
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Post remnant from Thursday
Osatara and the Moon of Mourning Thursday gratefuls: Kate, always Kate. Her memorial service and each of those who attended. Each person who has Kate in their heart right now. Ruth, who offered to stay with me last night and the night before. And, did. Jon, who saw Kate’s spirit before she died. Gabe. Kep […]
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Ostara and the Moon of Mourning Friday gratefuls: Kate. Seoah. Ruth. Important women in my life. CBE, our once and future life together. Woolly Mammoths. Snow. Once more, deep. Grief and its sad currents. Evergreen Memorial Park. Kep, who had to get up early today. Sparks of Joy: The card from Carol Horger. “Kate brought […]
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Ostara and Kate’s Moon Kate Olson has died. She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a pediatrician, a gardener, lover and mother of dogs, a bee keeper, a quilter, a needleworker, a master cook, and crossword puzzle completer. She was also Rachel since her early 30’s after her conversion to Judaism at Temple Israel […]
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Ostara and Kate’s Moon Tuesday gratefuls: Kate, always Kate. The washing machine. Food from CBE. Tara last night with great Japanese. Schmira. Evergreen Mortuary. Zoom. Coffee. Rest. Sparks of Joy: Snow and cold today. Kate’s favorite. Schmira. Folks from CBE now watch over Kate’s body in an ancient tradition that guards or watches (schmira) […]
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Ostara and Kate’s Moon Monday gratefuls: Kate. Sparks of Joy: Kate Oh. How can I write this? Kate is dead. She died a peaceful death at 12:20 am this morning. Her sister Sarah was with her. Soulmate. So over used as to be a silly notion. But we were each others. Loving into each others […]
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Ostara and Kate’s Moon Saturday gratefuls: Kate’s clear head, her choices. Death with dignity as an option. The Ancient Friends. Rabbi Jamie. CBE. Sleep. Kep and Rigel. Sparks of Joy: Sarah calling the Long Term Care folks. A Golden with his head out the window of a pickup truck. I know about true love. And, […]
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Ostara and the Ovid Moon of Metamorphoses Friday gratefuls: Kate. Sarah. Nurses, techs, respiratory techs, Beth at case management, docs from New West. rehab. Sleep. Sparks of Joy: A new class starting today with Rabbi Jamie. Kep and Rigel chasing the bunny all across the yard this morning. He got away. Sarah has […]
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Ostara and the Ovid Moon of Metamorphoses Monday gratefuls: Kate. Ruth, now 15. Gabe. Jon. Sarah. Anne. BJ. The Johnson/Olson clan. A survival knife. Sparks of Joy: Ruth in her birthday tiara. The meal she cooked. A stand for our honey extractor. 2011. Gonna be a short one. In today to see Kate and her […]
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Ostara and the Ovid Moon of Metamorphoses Sunday gratefuls: Broad spectrum antibiotics. Kate’s will. Jamie Bernstein. Easter and Passover and Spring. Friends. Rabbi’s. Countryfolk. Mountains. Dogs. Sparks of Joy: Kate’s blood cultures negative for infection. Exhaustion, but exhaustion held in the care and concern of so many others. Been thinking, a lot, about the holidays: […]
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