My personal vulture sneaks in with the delete and backspace keys on my lap-top. I remember the olden days, when color was grainy, hair was big and deleting things involved bits of torn off carbon paper and a sharp edge.
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A few years ago, the shopping center did a parking lot makeover, a design for less accessibility. The property management company does not maintain the lot. I have come to accept the situation and even have a favorite place to park. [...]  This morning I settled down in front of my lap-top to gather links from various Authors’ reviews. I’ve set up my ‘office area’ in front of the north windows and the view is as good as it gets. [...] In Montana, we are preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the passage of the ADA. We see the ADA as a paper, made not just of words and legal obligations, but as a symbol of the coming together of a great people. As a house becomes a home through the toil of those it shelters, so too has the ADA become something more than a law. It embodies the ideas, the vision of those who fashioned it. [...] Yesterday morning, I was at my lap-top and was startled by a young buck who had nudged right up to the window to see what I was doing. I knocked on the floor. [...] I don’t want to leave you with the idea that I cannot function without a cell phone while I am driving or that I am constantly checking my email. I toss my cell into the back seat with Havan when I am driving. I turn the computer to hibernate in the evening and always leave chat in favor of a rerun of Criminal Minds. We won’t go into television addiction. [...] The storm darkened the sky, thunder rumbled and the wind began to bend the trees and bushes. Thump, thump, became clang, bump, clang. [...] The first Kindle came out in 2007. Pricey little gadgets. Still, I’d like to have one. But, I can’t just drop, what was it, nearly 400 bucks on a device my family would see as a geek’s toy. [...] I wish I had a photo of the Pot and the Hurricane Lamp, sitting side by side on an equally antique table in the living room with the very fake fireplace. I have posted a cell phone photo of one of my ‘potted’ plants instead. [...] |
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