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Day 28 — NaPoWriMo

I’m still stuck on the news and the Gettysburg Address and all the video of people cleaning up in Baltimore just as other people in other cities have had to clean up after looting and anger took over their city … Continue reading →

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fixing a goal

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Continue reading →

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Writing Advice

The best advice I know to give is to learn to put up with boredom and frustration. You have to sit through the dull times when nothing’s coming and stay there, for however much time you’ve given yourself to write, … Continue reading →

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Einstein, Meet Kooser (from the quote box)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein Continue reading →

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Contemporary

To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. – Mary Oliver Continue reading →

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