Category Archives: the creative process

NaPoWriMo Day Three

Thought I’d slide up route 22 to visit Robert Frost today a good cool bright-blue-sky day but big red signs at the state line warned me Vermont was closed well, sort of, you know and it was too hard to … Continue reading →

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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 →

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NaPoWriMo Day One

Rain again, running down the sky, •
the window, into the roots •
of still uncertain plants… Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Here’s to getting here and finding the light and appreciating it where we find it. Northern Exposure End Scene: More Light from Markus Avrelius on Vimeo. Survived a night with roaring winds and rain so I might be a little … Continue reading →

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December 2020

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Continue reading →

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