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World Watercolor Month – Day One

Work by definition has to be when you woulda liked to have gone out and painted in the afternoon but by the time you can it’s thundering and lightning and raining. Went anyway. Not my favorite of recent paintings but … Continue reading

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Almost the end of November

Did you wonder where I was? Yup, November brings NaNoWriMo. I knew there were some days at the beginning of the month that no writing or at least little writing would be possible – a wedding and some other things … 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 28, NaPoWriMo

I’m off topic from my own prompts today… So alike, mother and daughter, that as the mother scolds her for sins of inattention and fidgeting and whining and perhaps a tantrumI I can easily imagine the little girl, using the … Continue reading

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