Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines
NaPoWriMo Day Thirteen
I went outside to sit with the daffodils today. It may snow. That’s right. It may snow. Won’t be the first time the daffodils have been beaten down in their glory but it seemed a good idea to sit with … Continue reading
Posted in coffee and tea, Do the Work, en plein air, gardens and flowers, good causes, haiku, life around us, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, Ripped from the headlines, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged coffee, daffodils, dothework, garden, haiku, headlines, NaPoWriMo, process, watercolor
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NaPoWriMo Day Two
Ended up today in the grocery store for the first time in a year. It was so much bigger than I remembered: dark ceiling, ignored arrows on floor, shelves and shelves of exotic stuff I remember the years of lingering … Continue reading
Posted in cats helpful cats, covid19, Do the Work, haiku, NaPoWriMo, Ripped from the headlines, the creative process
Tagged catshelpfulcats, covid19, dothework, haiku, NaPoWriMo, process
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Sandy Hook
Today is the eighth anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I had gone the previous night to a midnight showing of the Hobbit in Nyack NY where there is a “real” IMAX movie theater. A group of … Continue reading
Posted in geeky stuff, Lotr, Ripped from the headlines
Tagged dothework, guncontrol, news, SandyHook
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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
Posted in Do the Work, note to self, RESIST, Ripped from the headlines, words
Tagged dothework, gettysburg, RESIST, words
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7 November 2020
There was this and then moments later there were all kinds of wonderful headlines! Thanks everyone for keeping the faith and working and being strong. Now the real work begins.
Posted in deadline, Do the Work, life around us, RESIST, Ripped from the headlines
Tagged bidenharris2020, dothework, lifearoundus, RESIST
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