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Archives for June, 2008

Befuddled by Burgeoning Bag Bedlam

I’ve got burgeoning bags, sacks, pokes. Plastic or paper I keep ‘em both. Never know when you might need one. Used to store the plastic ones inside the paper, ’til I bought one of those pretty cloth bag dispensers at the crafts fair last year. What a great idea, organized storage and easy access too! [...]

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Ten Commandments of Life

I wrote this in 1990 as a reminder to myself. I was sitting on the beach in Kauai, Hawaii contemplating my life. Would it apply universally? Ten Commandments of Life by Bonnee Klein Gilligan FIRST – Fully and unconditionally love yourself. Recognize your Divinity. Honor yourself. SECOND – Unconditionally love and accept others. Recognize their Divinity and honor [...]

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Wild Weird Weather Wonderings

We’ve been having really weird weather. I live in the high desert. It’s been colder then usual this year and winder too. And May, whoa… stranger than I ever remember. Started off down right frigid. Warmed up to darn cold. Got sweltering hot for a day or two, then back down… brrrrr, cold. I’m wondering, [...]

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Annoying Ant Anomaly

Ants… UGH!!! They’re climbing up my walls, marching steadfastly across the kitchen counter, around the sink, right to the sugar bowl. Each Annoying Ant picks up a grain of sugar and halls it away… then another, and another, and another. At this rate they’ll steal all of my sweet stuff by night fall. The little [...]

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Bonnee Klein Gilligan – about me

[lang_en] Greetings everyone, I’m glad to be here at Babel. Thanks to Malcolm for inviting me. This is my first blog so I’ll introduce myself, I am Bonnee Klein Gilligan. I love to laugh. Enjoy writing about the things which impact me most… like consciousness, food, love, life and our beautiful world. I delight in [...]

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Smelly Sponge Syndrome – an epiphany

My kitchen sponge smells. I do one sink full of dishes and wham… the next day I’ve got a smelly sponge. New sponge or not, it makes little difference. I’ve heard that nuking it for 1 minute makes it all fresh again. So I started nuking it after each washing… and even put a wedge [...]

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