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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 10

when I was younger • swearing was forbidden • now it saves lives Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 7

Some off-screen • Coincidence of sun and moon Continue reading →

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The Gettysburg Address

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Continue reading →

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For the quote box

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. — John Ruskin And this: It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy … Continue reading →

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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2022

Hey now, I did try to sort out some small brown birds at the feeder, some stripey and some not. I did my Welsh lesson. I started to clean out a palette. I listened to Billy Collins. You know, I … Continue reading →

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