tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39190682024-03-13T06:47:39.591-06:00Santiago DreamingThe Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is a centuries old trek across northern Spain done by following "The Camino de Santiago", the road to Santiago. Before February of 2001 I had not heard of "The Camino" nor of the Pilgrimage. By the end of October of that year I was in Santiago after completing the walk myself. I thought that when I reached Santiago my journey was over but I see now that my journey started way before I got to Spain and still has not ended.la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-25596903158286818322023-08-06T11:50:00.004-06:002023-08-06T11:54:30.184-06:00STUCK IN THE MIDDLEClowns to the left of him, jokers to the right.#TrumpIsNotAVictim(Clay Jones August 6, 2023)la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-10440530027064111522023-05-28T07:00:00.003-06:002023-05-28T07:00:36.700-06:00Holding America Hostage #KevinMcCarthy #GOPThe PlutocratsPartyla peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-91233607012451747172023-01-29T06:55:00.001-07:002023-01-29T06:55:53.497-07:00What's Going On? Mother, motherThere's too many of you cryingBrother, brother, brotherThere's far too many of you dyingTyre Nichols was calling for his mother as Memphis, Tennessee police officers were beating him to death. Typing that sentence makes me want to cry as I did when I first heard about it.As we were watching the news report on the release of the video of Tyre Nichols murder, my husband la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-88935951867121604182022-06-25T17:06:00.004-06:002022-06-25T17:06:48.682-06:00 Roe v. Wade Overturned la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-1039297483675358282022-03-13T09:35:00.000-06:002022-03-13T09:35:10.945-06:00Let's Do The Time Warp, Again Ugh, I been up 2 1/2 hours and I already want to go back to bed. Damn you, Daylight Saving Time!#EndDaylightSavingTimela peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-50339587669015695802022-03-04T16:10:00.007-07:002022-03-12T20:11:51.771-07:00Living In Trump CountryI was at the grocery store earlier today when an oblivious old white man managed to walk into my cart. I stopped. He started to apologize as he turned to walk away but did a double take and then angerly said, "Why don't you watch where you are going?"I, knowing exactly what was happening (Me, mask. Him, not.), replied, "You fucker!"That's when I caught a movement out of the corner of my left eye la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-71592240077144104302022-02-28T08:16:00.000-07:002022-02-28T08:16:00.127-07:00Dog TalesThat was a long weekend. On Saturday night Belle had a seizure at 11:15 PM and we had to take her to the emergency vet. Bob called first and got a voice message saying they were no longer a 24 hr emergency vet and gave the phone numbers of 2 other vets. The first one said they were very busy and it would be 4 hrs before Belle would be seen. The second one was a vet clinic where Belle has la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-49143011064897743192022-02-12T18:08:00.001-07:002022-02-12T18:08:55.570-07:00Moving On'Cause there's a place in the sunWhere my poor restless heart's gotta runThere's a place in the sunAnd before my life is doneGotta find me a place in the sunI think it is time to announce a change in my life. In a few months my husband and I will be moving to Virginia. We are moving to the same town my sister Maura lives in which is why we picked it. I am sorry to leave the state I grew up in la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-35315616330229690132022-01-07T11:05:00.001-07:002022-01-07T11:05:58.636-07:00Echoes Of The PastI signed up with Ancestry.com for a month a few days. I sign up once a year and then do intense research on my family during that time period. Today I found out the daughter (Nannie Shannon, age 33.) of my great grandfather's brother died in the SS Eastland steamship disaster of 1915. On July 24th of that year the Eastland capsized while tied to it's dock on the Chicago River in downtown Chicago la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-83212581050585050252021-12-26T10:31:00.003-07:002022-01-07T11:12:17.502-07:00Christmas 2021This has been a hard Christmas for me. On Christmas Eve I put up my tree and decorated it like I do every year but doing so was mentally excruciating. Each ornament I added to the tree only added to my reluctance to continue. I was emotionally swimming against the tide. Christmas Day started out fine but by afternoon I felt like crying and just wanted the day to be over. Nothing like the la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-29301761580662679492021-09-20T17:30:00.001-06:002021-09-20T17:30:25.367-06:00There's A Moon Out Tonight Ten o'clock PM, September 19th, 2021The smoke from the fires burning here in Colorado and in California has dissipated. This is the first night without either a yellowish/orange moon or obscured sky cover. I don't believe how quickly I had forgotten how clear the night sky can be in Colorado or how bright the full moon. Lovely.la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-78166539969203580302021-06-16T11:20:00.003-06:002021-06-16T11:20:18.812-06:00Belle Got A Bath This Morning"Why am I lying here completely surrounded by no biscuits?"la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-21545012376138200732021-05-04T14:55:00.004-06:002021-05-04T14:55:42.845-06:00The Fog Comes On Little Cat FeetIt sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on
-Carl Sandburg la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-74249836751421570812021-04-28T10:50:00.000-06:002021-04-28T10:50:08.231-06:00The Mountains Are Calling When I am feeling frazzled this view of Longs Peak soothes my soul, even on a cloudy day.la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-46470407983880508362021-04-15T12:32:00.003-06:002021-04-15T12:33:42.703-06:00Snow Days A month ago we were hit with a snowstorm that left 28 inches of snow behind. It also knocked out the power for a day and a half. Here is my husband reading by the light of a small pocket flashlight and a lamp shaped like the pages of a book. Both are battery operated. la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-8171209304510920542021-04-12T12:29:00.007-06:002021-04-12T12:29:54.796-06:00Is Anyone There? At about 5:OO PM last night I thought I heard someone at the front door and went to check.
Yep, I was right.la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-77604991563737361502021-03-23T07:13:00.001-06:002021-03-23T07:13:24.976-06:00This Has Got To Stop la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-87619719095489304862021-02-16T08:59:00.002-07:002021-02-16T08:59:39.386-07:00Baby, It's Cold OutsideDo you know how you can tell when it has been bitterly cold outside? When the outdoor temp is up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit and you open the door to let your dog out and think, "Wow, it's really warmed up."Me, yesterday.
la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-40667792225784199552021-02-11T17:52:00.008-07:002022-01-07T11:07:05.468-07:00Our Mothers, OurselvesAfter seeing photos from Getty Images of people our mother protested with with during the Civil Rights Movement in Denver in the 1960's, my sister decided to see if there were photos of our mother there and found these."JUN 9 1976, JUN 10 1976; E. Jean Shannon; JUN 9 1976, JUN 10 1976; E. Jean Shannon; (Photo By John Sunderland/The Denver Post via Getty Images)"-Getty Images"SEP 24 1974 MRS. JEANla peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-55845356238381008262021-02-05T08:56:00.002-07:002021-02-05T08:56:51.308-07:00Next Project I'm going to start a Facebook page for Belle called "Belle's Delivery Photobombs." la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-70068155863778245282021-02-02T10:23:00.003-07:002021-02-02T10:25:31.397-07:00 THE GOP MANIFESTOWE Believe: -Donald Trump is our new born King WE Believe:-We must save our new born King WE Believe:-Sedition is patriotism We Believe:-Violence is patriotismWE Believe:-True Americans are PatriotsWE Believe:-True Americans are White, Christian and far-right politicallyWe Believe:-True Americans Constitutional Rights are more important that the Constitutional Rights of Americans who are not Truela peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-58687593385289625522021-01-25T08:48:00.005-07:002021-02-02T10:26:23.055-07:00The Wheels On The Cart Go 'Round And 'Round My dog Belle could no longer go on her normal walks because of her arthritis and I noticed that not doing so made her depressed. We were putting her in the car and driving her to the park and letting her walk around for a bit but that didn't seem to be enough. So we bought her a dog cart.
Belle in her dogcart waiting to go for a walk. She was a bit worried on the first walk but when she la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-49799145257275705962021-01-20T11:35:00.002-07:002021-01-20T11:35:43.111-07:00Feeling Goodla peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-66912073228123457172021-01-18T11:03:00.000-07:002021-01-18T11:03:16.466-07:00Light Shadows 38 la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919068.post-47275805243304672852021-01-04T17:44:00.002-07:002021-01-04T17:44:30.705-07:00What I Am Waiting ForBiden/Harris Inauguration and the end of this nightmare. la peregrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992459469931809488noreply@blogger.com0