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I spent the day matting prints and bagging greeting cards, and then I headed hometown-ward and enlisted my kind kinfolk to help me make up some buttons and magnets. I’m pretty well prepped for the Maple Leaf Fest this weekend.<\/p>\n
I came across this photo looking through some oldies a bit ago.. Music has always been a part of my life (maybe a reason why a good portion of my posts here are music related..). \u201cThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.\u201d -Albert Schweitzer<\/p>\n
In true Kansan fashion, I’ll bring up the weather. The wind right now is insane and blew me all over the road earlier. I posted a picture last week of a forest-like area which at that time was still lush with leaves, and today, those trees were completely bare. I’m now listening to the wind from a north facing room on the second story and it sounds like a roaring ocean. I like it. It makes me think of one of my favorite books, Song of Hiawatha by HW Longfellow. There’s a chapter about the four winds. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n
But the fierce Kabibonokka
\nHad his dwelling among icebergs,
\nIn the everlasting snow-drifts,
\nIn the kingdom of Wabasso,
\nIn the land of the White Rabbit.
\nHe it was whose hand in Autumn
\nPainted all the trees with scarlet,
\nStained the leaves with red and yellow;
\nHe it was who sent the snow-flake,
\nSifting, hissing through the forest,
\nFroze the ponds, the lakes, the rivers,
\nDrove the loon and sea-gull southward,
\nDrove the cormorant and curlew
\nTo their nests of sedge and sea-tang
\nIn the realms of Shawondasee<\/i>
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