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Michael Garfield

Kaleidoscope

She is a child again.
She hears the All song
but her ears are deaf
in the next minute.
As she turns,
fractured color
fills her eye.
Where mirrors
and circles
intersect
she see herself:
seventy-seven incarnations
of perfection.
The imperfect,
a beautiful tapestry
of color that glows
like a painted window.
Child and elder,
lovely and ignorant
in the most profound ways;
wise and lonely,
small and playful,
sad and grey
a rock in the storm,
the sun of an old day,
a tremolo over the water.
A chorus sings
from her chest;
voices raised in
harmony,
dissonance,
life and pain,
death and joy.

The wheel of forever exists
where bad and good do not exist;
above or below center,
right or left of center
but each variant
is one beautiful jewel
on this shield.
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This past month has been one where I’ve felt a little lost, even while I felt like I knew exactly where I was going. I did all the ‘right’ things; crossing all the T’s and dotting all the I’s but I felt a little empty and inadequate at the end of every day. Too much on my plate and no brakes to say ‘no.’ I was sorry every week to miss the opportunity to say ‘Hey’ to you guys.

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Don’t Fear the Egg

This week has been cold and rainy and a little grey. And this is the week that Annie, our giant chicken, laid her first egg. It was a little alarming for her and her chicken friend, Lucy and they clucked the whole time.

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Love Thy Frickin’ Self

I woke up this morning a little under the weather and the urge to stay in, under covers and just be. And here I am typing away at you guys. That’s cause I’m being led down a rabbit hole – a helpful one and have an urge to share.

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Tech Tip: iPhone Precision Keyboard Cursor

Selecting text on my iPhone has always been frustrating, but it’s been especially so since they stopped magnifying the text when you long press it. What I didn’t know, until recently, is that Apple updated the way the cursor works in iOS 12 — two years ago!

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Ants vs Owl

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Tech Tip: Remove Text Formatting in Windows

Do you ever have a need to remove formatting from text before pasting it into Word or some other document software? I do this all the time in my design work, and I needed a way to do this in Windows 10.

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