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I didn’t have a single *&^% left… until I did!
This is a totally off the wall suggestion but I give it based on my own experience. You know how we laugh with a friend or groups that we’re “just outta fucks to give”? Continue reading
Posted in badass-ness, Do the Work, family and friends, fountain pens, note to self, RESIST, Ripped from the headlines, words
Tagged advice, badassness, dothework, election2024, FountainPens, friends, recovery, RESIST, words
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 29
long enough pause here • to compose an elegy • waiting for a sign Continue reading
Posted in cats helpful cats, Do the Work, haiku, kittens, life around us, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process, words
Tagged blackcat, Cat, catsofmastodon, dothework, elegy, haiku, NaPoWriMo, poems, poetry, process, TaylorSwift, WordXWord
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Painting while Poem-ing
Yesterday was Day 19 of 19 of doing at least one watercolor each day during National Poetry Writing Month and I’m sticking with it. When doing a month-long writing thing, I have found it nearly impossible to paint so that … Continue reading
Posted in badass-ness, Do the Work, gardens and flowers, gratitude, NaPoWriMo, the creative process, watercolor, words
Tagged dothework, garden, gratitude, NaPoWriMo, process, teachers, watercolor, words, writing
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NaPoWriMo – Day Twenty-nine
I listened to Billy Collins talking and reading tonight. And then I listened to a whole lot of people reading a whole lotta poems in celebration of National Poetry Month – an event put on by the Academy of American … Continue reading
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Tagged dothework, glasses, haiku, NaPoWriMo, NationalPoetryMonth, process
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The Gettysburg Address
Perhaps we could all take a moment to read this aloud, and to think of what the words meant then, and mean today. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived … Continue reading
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