Category Archives: taking time to look

Sunday at The Clark & Sketchbooks

Painting up on the hill: Tomorrow I start a short online course about using sketchbooks so these warranted another look at in the last tour of Drawn from Greatness. Degas and Cezanne! There was also a sketchbook (noted that it … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-one, NaPoWriMo

There on the floor, the unexpected. Finding a cat’s whisker is a rare event despite the multiple cats and their multitudinous whiskers. They seem unusually shed but it must happen like any hair, certainly more often than say the kitten’s … Continue reading

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Day Nineteen, NaPoWriMo

Deep in snow, walking with cold. •
The shining air, stirring around the trees Continue reading

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Looking up and down and around

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Day Twelve, NaPoWriMo

At the Poetry Reading (after Billy Collins) Listening to his poems and to the audience laughing and giving that singular sound of recognition, I wanted someone to read my poems so I could hear that inhalation. After, he took questions. … Continue reading

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