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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative “success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.
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NaPoWriMo – Day Fifteen
Day started out nice, cool and bright. Great clouds. Painted quite awhile and started a larger format moleskine watercolor sketchbook. Came home and started setting up the worm box. Fedex showed up on cue so I dumped on those worms … Continue reading
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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 Twelve
I think many are experiencing these sudden grabs of emotion. Every day, a swath of tears leaps unexpected a cut of green against weeds in an April landscape The rest runs to rules hills fading to light and blue above … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, en plein air, In the neighborhood, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged clouds, landscape, NaPoWriMo, pleinair, poem, poetry, watercolor
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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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Other things seen today
Daffodils seem extra exuberant and much appreciated this year! and then the hills, with clouds: