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Archive for May, 2009

May 29th, 2009 by the jodi

wake me up before you goat, girl

My first day working in the barn at Green Chimney’s. You know how excited I was, I could barely sleep. I arrived eager, ready to work, ready to help, ready to nuzzle sheeps and goats. Apparently I will nuzzle anything with fur, wool or hair and cannot tell one critter from another. What kind of [...]

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May 29th, 2009 by the jodi

ready, set…goat!

There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you know the one, he’s standing in front of a bottomless cavern. He scatters some sand into the abyss and from the darkness a bit of a bridge appears. He steps out and….trusts. It’s an powerful metaphor for that leap of faith that we sometimes [...]

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May 27th, 2009 by the jodi

daddy was a con man

Daddy was a con man. Not a thief, not a Catch Me if You Can con man, but a con none the less.  Of course, this was before he married my moms. Before he married Big Edie he was a lot of things. I was raised on the stories of a Fred before my moms, [...]

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