Category Archives: the creative process

Sorting Through the Paint Bag

Tonight I sorted through the paint bag that lives in the car. I was trying to make a lighter bag, because you know it’s hard to haul all that stuff up hills etc. I was a little amazed (and embarrassed) … Continue reading →

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May Day, 2018

Happy May Day! I took myself on a little vacation from writing today, after writing a poem each day for all of April. It was warm and mostly sunny and I had reserved a spot in a rare books something … Continue reading →

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Day Thirty, NaPoWriMo

It’s good to jot down words: a line of conversation, two words or three that appear on the windshield during the drive to work good to capture them in the dailyness of life snatching them from wherever words and ideas … Continue reading →

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Day Twenty-nine, NaPoWriMo

I can tell I’ve been listening to the lays of Bilbo. Here, small works, the labor of the world, are known, that day by day we hurry through both chores and song and lightly running pass down one path then … Continue reading →

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Day Twenty-seven, NaPoWriMo

Jumped? No. Not at all. Falling? Not exactly. Allowed myself to fall? Gave myself willingly to the spring surge, the tidal pull? More than likely. Look the wrong way and it plows down and sweeps you away unexpected. Not necessarily … Continue reading →

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