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Day 28 NaPoWriMo 2022
I went to see a talk that was supposed to happen in April 2020. Then it was rescheduled to September 2020 and then April 2021 and then… Well and here we all were at Proctors in Schenectady and out came … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, fountain pens, geeky stuff, haiku, life around us, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, reads, the creative process
Tagged cats, dothework, fountainpen, gaiman, GloPoWriMo, haiku, NaPoWriMo, poetry, process, proctors
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NaPoWriMo – Day Thirteen
Well, to say the least, it was raining. And then it rained some more. And then Billy Collins did his live reading at 5:30 – Thank you Billy! When the rain came down making circles in circles of the world … Continue reading
Posted in coffee and tea, covid19, Do the Work, en plein air, food, In the neighborhood, life on the web, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, reads, Ripped from the headlines, the creative process, watercolor, weather
Tagged covid19, landscape, NaPoWriMo, pleinair, poetry, process, watercolor, weather
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NaPoWriMo – Day 11
The mail brought a postcard and the NaPoWriMo prompt brought a link to a lovely archived version of Kate Greenaway’s Language of Flowers. Lovely indeed and a welcome diversion on this cold April morning. I looked up the meaning of … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, gardens and flowers, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, reads, taking time to look, the creative process
Tagged daffodils, dothework, flowers, forsythia, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry
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Ah HA! The Job of the Artist
I started reading “No Time to Spare” by Ursula K. LeGuin and what a read it is. A blurb on the back by New York Times Book Reviewer Melissa Febos promised “The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader … Continue reading
Posted in Art in the world, badass-ness, clouds, Do the Work, note to self, reads, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged art, artist, badass, dothework, leguin, watercolor, writing
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Happy Birthday J.R.R.!
Happy Birthday J.R.R.! …the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, fae and elvish, geeky stuff, Lotr, reads, the creative process
Tagged geekystuff, LoTR, Reads, tolkien
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