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Tip o’ the hat to James Gurney and his fine painting vlog: The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds… seeing them is a metter of the right point of view, and your painter’s eye is the special portal … Continue reading

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Day 30 NaPoWriMo 2022

I didn’t get the new plants potted in their big pots but I did go out and sit with them this afternoon. In front of me was the warm yellow of the daffodils still holding court in the front garden. … Continue reading

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Day 28 NaPoWriMo 2022

I went to see a talk that was supposed to happen in April 2020. Then it was rescheduled to September 2020 and then April 2021 and then… Well and here we all were at Proctors in Schenectady and out came … Continue reading

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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2022

Hey now, I did try to sort out some small brown birds at the feeder, some stripey and some not. I did my Welsh lesson. I started to clean out a palette. I listened to Billy Collins. You know, I … Continue reading

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Day 25 NaPoWriMo 2022

Guess what I did today. Tell me what you see and now? now is just a guess too small, far away. look straight ahead now now right, left, up, and now down now the other side. in a darkened room … Continue reading

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