Category Archives: Do the Work
Things found on the way to something else.
Here is the Wudang horsetail whisk form: • Turn around the body • Yellow dragon covers its head Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, geeky stuff, taking time to look, the creative process
Tagged chinesedrama, dothework, horsetail, poetry, process, rummaging, wudang
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 5
How lucky I am to be able • to fill the bird feeders • while the chickadees and cardinals • whistle waiting in the shrubs. Continue reading
Posted in birds and chickens, deadline, Do the Work, gratitude, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics
Tagged birds, dothework, gratitude, luck, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, process
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 3
then let me go first • wednesday is hard Continue reading
Posted in deadline, Do the Work, haiku, landscape, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process, weather
Tagged dothework, haiku, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, postcards, process, weather, wednesday
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Day 2 NaPoWriMo 2024
This familiar paper cup • This brown cardboard sleeve… Continue reading
Posted in coffee and tea, deadline, Do the Work, family and friends, gratitude, haiku, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, the creative process
Tagged coffee, dothework, friends, haiku, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, postcard, process
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 1
Mom and I are having a busy week of appointments and such but tonight we listened to Ada Limon host three other poets: Kevin Young, Patricia Smith and Ilya Kaminsky and an actor, Crystal Dickinson reading from her newly released … Continue reading