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Spring is on the Way

Posted March 24th, 2010 in Katie, Reflections by Glenn Plaskin

Spring Trees

Spring Trees

On this slightly dreary rainy day, as I’m looking from my office window, I’m remembering what the view usually looks like in spring, as in the picture taken in spring 2009. As the weather warms up, though, the grand English oaks, river birches, and weeping willows are going to make their entrance. As I bike through the pathways, I’m going to be shaded by a lush umbrella of trees, an ideal backdrop for lunchtime strollers. In the evening, the purple lanterns set close to the water glow as residents and visitors dine at candlelit tables.

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Some Of The Best Things That Happen In Life Are Purely Accidental…

Posted March 24th, 2010 in Katie, Reflections by Glenn Plaskin
Katie on the computer

Katie on the computer

An intuition or spontaneous decision can take you almost anywhere, including to a profoundly close friendship that develops when you least expect it.

That’s what happened to me. One day, with a brand-new puppy in my arms, I impulsively knocked on my next-door neighbor’s door, anxious for advice about how to train her. Whether it was serendipity, luck, chemistry, or sheer proximity–that brief encounter, and the events that followed it, would change my life (and my dog’s) forever.”

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