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Where We Launch and Where We Land - *"Where We Land" on display* It's been almost a week since the launch of my novella "Where We Land", No. 1 in The Cuba Press Novella Series, at VicBooks ...
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Vanilla No Vanilla - Do we know what we wantwhen we say I want? Of coursewe don't. Of course we'll saystupid things that will makethe Starbucks server call outVenti vanilla wit...4 hours ago
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How to Free Yourself from the Burden of Your Potential - *“Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.”* We all have natural talents, and in some cases, we may have devoted years to ho...6 hours ago
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Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love - "Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."7 hours ago
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NUMBER MAGIC - Every four months or so I have lowlights done (opposite of highlights) so as to regain or retain some semblance of youthful-ish appearance. One must keep u...
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‘unforgivable’ 83/100 haikufeltings - the unforgivable otherness of flowers . . . (my first attempt at a wet-felted flower didn’t turn out very well: unforgivable!)14 hours ago
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A little Sunday poem - A Blackbird fell Have you ever wondered what happens to the birds? sparrows entertain us town folk rewarding us for gardens treats the seeds and nuts we de...14 hours ago
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A new title? - I have decided to change the name of my blog. Nothing has changed; that’s a joke! Life changes there is no escaping it; enough to say that I am still bald...21 hours ago
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The Other Eye - According to family lore, when Nuri came back with the bandage on her nose, everyone was shocked. There was enough nose on her to make three new ones, sa...23 hours ago
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Taking the Virgin First Class Train from Glasgow to London - Travel on the first class Virgin Train between Glasgow and London2 days ago
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Rice Recipes, Dog Pics and 7 Exercise Tips - Not that I intend to turn this into an Instant Pot blog or anything, but the fact is that I have been enjoying my new kitchen toy a lot. And by enjoying, I...
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Sliding Doors – How Would Your Life Be Different If You Had Taken The Other Door? - This week I’m happy to introduce you to Erica Henault as my guest blogger while Thom and I are traveling. I started following Erica’s blog Behind The ...2 days ago
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Summer (F)avorite Things – The Bath and Beauty Edition - Take a peek at a few of our favorite bath and beauty items lately… ~ TANYA ~ I recently got these Aviator Ray-Bans on a deep discount and I have been weari...2 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 18 July 2019 Edition - Another week and another edition of Skywatch. Here in Tulsa we had a brief interlude of dry, halfway cool weather with some strange cloud movement from eas...3 days ago
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“Lisbon Tales” Captures Various Angles of Portugal’s Capital, with a Focus on Salazar’s Dictatorship - [image: Image of “Lisbon Tales” Captures Various Angles of Portugal’s Capital, with a Focus on Salazar’s Dictatorship] Lisbon Tales is part of a long-run...3 days ago
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Bathroom Monologue: Every Argument About Racism in the Last Week, Abridged - Me: That shit he said was racist. Rando: No it wasn't. Me: Three of the four of them were born in the U.S. This is their country. This is their government...4 days ago
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Drawing Our Past and Present - Last week I spent several days visiting my father in central New York State, where I grew up. He lives in a different town now, but I was staying at the ho...5 days ago
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Atlantic Hotel by Joao Gilberto Noll - Atlantic Hotel by Joao Gilberto Noll Brazilian fiction Original title – Hotel Atlântico Translator – Adam Morris Sour...5 days ago
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Wild Bird Wednesday 365 - Brown Noddy - WBW is back on Lord Howe Island this week - although I am in central Australia, many miles from the internet and probably a bit tired after a few days walk...
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der Luftpostfaltbrief - Plush summertime ~ and the living is easy ♪ ~ when some of us travel and some of us stay on home-turf. Postcards have begun to appear in my mailbox: Venice...
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Neuromorality - ‘In 1989 I was invited to go to Los Angeles in response to a request from the Dalai Lama, who wished to learn some basic facts about the brain.’ Besides be...6 days ago
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Fiction and Truth - “Fiction is a lie that tells us true things” is a quote from Neil Gaiman’s foreword to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I always read the front matter befo...
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Happy Birthday to Hen - Another year, another July 11, another summer day of sticking my hands into the soil and rooting around with the roses and missing you. I whip butter and s...1 week ago
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The Drive Between Homes - by Chris Davis The red Miata behind us slams on its horn, letting my dad know—in the rudest way possible—he hadn’t merged quickly enough. The speed limit ...1 week ago
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Terrible Twosdays - A little story I wrote from a long time ago about a visit to the doctors office with my son, is up on Terrible Twosdays today. You can read it here: C.heck...1 week ago
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#30DaysWild Day 30 Threnody for Wilderness - Wildness becoming a wilderness of concrete no home for wild life Bird heaven would be of meadows and native trees with wild on the side Wild flowers by lan...3 weeks ago
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Book of the month: Annelies Verbeke - One of the joys of this project has been the opportunity it’s given me to interact with authors around the world. From Turkmen author Ak Welsapar, who grac...3 weeks ago
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More Praise for my Editing - Dr. Ameya Bodre, Head, Clinical R&D, SINE lab, IIT-Mumbai writes: 'I got an opportunity to share one of the stories of my debut collection with Abha and I...3 weeks ago
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Of Workshops and Kittens - So ages ago, I promised you the saga of Mr Litlove’s new workshop and now that he is finally in and preparing for Open Studios once again, I think it’s saf...3 weeks ago
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three random things - Prompts from [image: [personal profile]]*marginaliana*: *scissors*: Because I was moderately serious about bookbinding and other papercrafts around twenty ...3 weeks ago
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River dove - Thank you to Paul Farley and Andrew McRae for including "River Dove" on the @*placesofpoetry* map. Longlisted for The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition, jud...4 weeks ago
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On my way to buy a morning paper #90 - Two dog walkers How did I know they were not a couple? She talked too loudly, an anecdote. He looked at her, now and then, as she spoke more alert than a hus...4 weeks ago
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Sustainable Harvesting and the Alaskan Foodie - *By Vivian Mork Yeilk' My mother squished a blueberry and put it in my mouth. Everything was new. I was new. She walked me through the forest, setting m...
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New poem, The Aunts - I was lucky enough, as writer in residence at Manchester Southern Cemetery, to have a poem commissioned by the Manchester Poetry Library for the Radość Pis...4 weeks ago
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Shortlisted! - Delighted to be shortlisted in the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day Micro competition with my story "On the Other Hand". 22 stories for 22 days... and my story...
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C’était le dernier épisode - En Janvier dernier j’ai posté « 2019 ». C’était le numéro 40 de la série de films « Journal Infirme »… et le dernier. J’avais commencé cette série en 2016 ...3 months ago
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Drivers - The driver was an elderly man, probably in his seventies. He opened the boot and I hauled the suitcase into it. Sit wherever you like, he said. I chose the...3 months ago
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An eclectic mix – as good as it gets - Over the last few days I have been battling with an irritating sore throat which has morphed into a persistent cough. I haven’t had much energy to talk, bu...3 months ago
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Still here! Still here! With a very brief glimpse at a Greek island memoir by Carola Matthews. - Hi everyone. Remember me?! Such a long blog hiatus I am having. Not intentional, I assure you. I write posts in my head quite frequently, usually while I’m...3 months ago
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DREAM - I was reading the weekend newspaper when I came across a story about a prolific writer who had started a petition. Tens of thousands of people had already ...3 months ago
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Grandma’s Tricks - The short story «Grandma’s Tricks» is one of my more literary stories. It was published in the lovely In-flight Literary … Continue reading →4 months ago
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Silicon Valley in Book Reviews – Part I - As another foray into reading more deeply (and in an effort to trim my to-read list), I decided to pick up a collection of books on Silicon Valley. Mostly,...5 months ago
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‘Tis Always the Season for Shortbread Cookies - In my family, Christmas just isn’t Christmas without shortbread cookies. Both my parents loved cooking and baking, but my father and I usually made the sho...6 months ago
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Passive. - *Passive.* During winter she realized her passive state was a form of being active. It was a doing. An act of getting things left undone. Her not do...
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An Archive of Rhubarb History - Worth more than cinnamon on the Silk Road; acidic in the cold, but good for dying; your great-aunt dips the raw stalks in sugar. period blood the moon move...6 months ago
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New Year’s Resolution… Read to the Baby - Making New Year’s Resolutions seems to be a bit passe, but I still like to do it. It gives me a chance to reflect on what’s working well or not so well, wh...6 months ago
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2018 Reflections: Reading, Writing, Rituals - *Reading* Another reading year gone by. While I haven't been on the blog much, it has been a rich year for books, with some of my favorites of the year p...
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the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) - the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) Home featuring DeMisty D. Bellinger J. P. Dancing Bear Nicholas Fairclough David Heg Ted Mc Ca...6 months ago
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post-perspectives on (that night) - The first poem (versified haibun) to which I wrote a sequel posted earlier below this: also published at otata, January 2018, of which the editor said, “a ...7 months ago
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Observations: November 2018 - Happy Holidays, Friends! Where have I been? Um. The short answer is Ohio, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, writing a novel-in-stories...
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sky, with a bit of cottonwood - Two Moon Park on a holiday was not busy. Pairing the words, busy and park, feels wrong and we were glad to see few people there. Father and young son on b...1 year ago
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“In the Alcoholic’s Apartment, A Time Machine” by Chelsea Dingham - Clearly, I am a horrible blogger. But a lovely thing happened to me today, which is that Lisa Mecham stumbled on this old post of mine about her poem “Revi...1 year ago
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Getting Ready to Dive - A lovely spring morning here...at last! Seems like it's been weeks, months since we've had a mild, blue sky morning. I walked the big loop to the river a...
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Poem: Forest for the Trees - You can now read my most recently published poem, Forest for the Trees, at Indianapolis Review. This poem came from my ongoing efforts to think through wha...1 year ago
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(g) fortunes /sentimental sediment? (1.21) - Fortune: Don’t forget you are always on our minds . sentimental sediment? . spam and spoofed trash have little weight and no value though they take up spac...1 year ago
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A poem a week... - https://ofkells.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-2018-poet-bloggers-revival-tour.html1 year ago
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Facade of Naulakha Palace, Gondal - The 18th century Naulakha Palace at Gondal is one of the oldest palace in this town. It has a beautiful sculpted facade. The palace has magnificent ston...
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this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorted...
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Change is Good--Right? - Hello dear readers--are you still out there? It's been awhile, and I wouldn't blame you for moving on. I felt the need for change, and have spent some tim...
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New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’ - New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’1 year ago
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A special sentence structure - [Nine years ago today, I started this blog. It will be on hiatus with today’s post, my 510th. I’m in a transition into semi-retirement teaching and writi...2 years ago
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - This is the fourth book on the TWEM list, the first one I have read before, and the first one I actually enjoyed instead of endured. I remember ADORING P...
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LITERATURE: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children - Honestly hadn’t heard of this novel by Ransom Riggs until I saw the trailer for the Tim Burton movie and of course, was fascinated by it. While well-writte...2 years ago
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Goodbye blog - I am switching to a new website. I'll leave this blog live for another month or so, after that I'll take it offline. I hope you'll find my new abode pleas...2 years ago
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Best Small Fictions news and nominations - Kicking off the new year with news from my recent trip to Europe. First, I had the pleasure of reading in Berlin in December, with a reading series sponsor...2 years ago
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2017 Category Challenge - *Challenge Summary: * To encourage ourselves to “read outside the box,” in this group we (each) pick (our own) categories to read within. You can have as m...
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How about Valencia? - Need to change the name of this blog from literary blogging to travel blogging, since that’s most of what appears here lately. When I bother to post anythi...2 years ago
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Blessing the Boats - Blessing the Boats By Lucille Clifton may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you k...3 years ago
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From Bookworm to Social Butterfly - Originally posted on YA Author Rendezvous: Written by Julie Tuovi The eReader was a great invention for YA fiction-addicted adults everywhere—for those who ...3 years ago
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Decoding Static Relaunching Soon - Decoding Static home to the writing, art and photography of Andy Harrod. Including the books, Living Room Stories and tearing at thoughts and the art proje...4 years ago
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Interview with Rami Shamir - Today I'm posting Part One of my interview with *Rami Shamir*, in the last 29 hours of a Kickstarter campaign for his novel TRAIN TO POKIPSE. This expl...
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EDB 301 6W2 2015 Pop Discussion Quiz - Video on the Common Core State Standards Question: What would critical pedagogy have to say about this video? What is the “social foundation” of the ideas ...4 years ago
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Harga Asus Zenfone 2 di Indonesia saat Ini - Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML yang disebut product teranyar dari vendor Asus serta termasuk product teranyar di seri Asus Zenfone Series. Meskipun umumnya product...
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Disco Poem - A while ago I took part in a call for work with a disco theme. I was paired with an artist who would paint a portrait to fit with my written work. I was pa...4 years ago
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Indefinite Space 2015 - *from minimalist to avant-garde ---* *open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, * *experimental creations--- poetry drawings collage photograph-- * *...
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STERN by Jane Hammons - New photography up at Revolution John Magazine : the cement ship in Monterey Bay, Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, CA.4 years ago
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The Reasonable Ogre - Much as I appreciate retellings of fairytales, reading new ones is an altogether different pleasure; especially when these are fairytales for adults or m...4 years ago
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La Paloma Amarilla - Like all drunks, we wake up laughing. Then we lie there for a long time, not moving. “I don’t want to move,” says K. “I’ll find out how drunk I still am.” ...4 years ago
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Books that have had the most impact on me - Back in December, when the current meme of Top Ten Most Influential books was going around Facebook for the first time, I made a list but never got around ...4 years ago
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Beberapa Objek Wisata Pulau Lombok Yang Wajib Anda Kunjungi - *Pulau Lombok*, siapa yang tak kenal dengan pulau yang indah nan mempesona ini. Pulau Lombok bisa jadi merupakan pulau yang menjadi saingan Pulau Bali di ...
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Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan - Originally posted on GIANT READER: by Brian Alan Ellis Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan Civil Coping Mechanisms, February 2014 142 pages / $13.95 Buy...4 years ago
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Paw Prints in the Sand - Day 77 Listening to: Dance Hall Days Thought for the day: One small paw print for man. One giant leap for man’s spirit! Many of you are like me in that I’m...5 years ago
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The return of the Not.. - Just a quick note to Not heads out there who wonder what's been up. You're about to see some changes at the Not as my focus shifts from fiction to pop-cult...5 years ago
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blueprint new year blogroll - *BluePrint Blog Roll* notes + photos reflections + reviews postcards + quotes & much more from around the world. enjoy ~
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Mangroves save one Philippine coastal town from the worst of Typhoon Haiyan - From PRI’s program The World, Michael Holtz reports: Mangroves form low-lying thickets that hug the shore of coastal areas in tropical regions around the w...5 years ago
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Sunday Sniffles and Surprise Baskets - This morning I woke up and peeked out the bedroom window. Rain. And it was cold. And my nose was clogged on one side. And it was hard to breathe. And so I ...
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I’m back! - So you may or may not have noticed my complete disappearing act. Many months ago I disappeared from book blogging, not because of lack of interest but lack...5 years ago
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Blog moved to Wordpress - My main blog is now Poetry Notes and Jottings on Wordpress. Updates for 2013 will be visible there.6 years ago
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Intrepid Explorer - The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the *Magazine of the Museum of Everything, *who enjoy his accounts of unreli...6 years ago
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Return from Lethe - Engulfed by black ripples of forgetfulness, beyond the fallen towers of the night toppled by the moon’s delivering rays, to the hidden boats of weariness a...6 years ago
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Lake Rebecca Park Preserve - Very green through the area, and everything growing thick making it hard to bushwack through the non-path areas. The raccoons climb higher into the trees, ...6 years ago
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On The Wires > qarrtsiluni / Animals in the City - They woke me up at the crack of dawn. Looked out my window. Here’s what I (heard and) saw … On the Wires now live at qarrtsiluni in the ‘Animals in the Cit...6 years ago
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viewmasters and earthquakes - Fellow Travelers: I wake up from the semi-hibernation of late December and realize January is well underway. On Friday the 4th, nearing midnight, a 7.5 ear...6 years ago
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I joined a challenge or two. - I like to be challenged. I like having a goal to work toward. I love reading. Can you see where this is going? I've signed up for some reading challenges. ...6 years ago
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34 - The space they are in is years long. Two, they hover on a threshold. One reaches to touch the other. The hand goes through. Waves radiate. The past is...6 years ago
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Hey, it’s only been a year… - Maybe more than a year. But, here is a new blog update, at last and finally. Mostly this is just to say I’m joining the “7 Continents, 7 Billion people, 7...6 years ago
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Highlight: Deniz Utlu in translation - For this special highlight in our final highlight series this month, we have a collection of five “minimals from the … Continue reading →6 years ago
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Blog Carnival 6: All About Frankfurt - We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put togeth...6 years ago
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Low Road - Day 100 The sun shone through the window. A young girl was sitting on a chair listening to her ipod. It was once her mothers. Her father had saved her life...6 years ago
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100/100 For dragon eggs? - Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new? We have lived so long and so well In our green fable Shall we open the doors? [from ‘Uranium 2’...
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Kaffe in Katmandu Says Goodbye - It’s been a psychedelic ride with you guys, thank you for all the fun and the faces and so much dada during 2011, but after one year and infinite degrees...7 years ago
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New - It's that time of year again when we say goodbye to the old and say hello to the new. This is a favourite time of year from me as it's a chance for me to r...
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Street Scenes - Our street was a desolate, one-way suburban enclave smack in the middle of the town center. Next to it lay the busiest main road at the time, the susurrati...7 years ago
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#100/100 Window - This photo was originally published on YB Poetry blog in June 2011. All other photos--the ones taken by me--I've post...7 years ago
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a new book is a scary canvas - A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. —Franz Kafka a new book is a scary undertaking of unknown proportions. for the past months, i’ve been ...7 years ago
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Hibernation - is a sweet thing–concerns darkness, being afraid. A leather building? I have been hibernating in January–just a note to say I haven’t for...8 years ago
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TRAVEL + ART + MORE BLOGS
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Lens-Artists Challenge #55 – DREAMY - “When dreams come true creativity becomes art.” Martin Schuster This week Ann-Christine has challenged us to portray things “dreamy”. As one who occasional...
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Happy Birthday to Hen - Another year, another July 11, another summer day of sticking my hands into the soil and rooting around with the roses and missing you. I whip butter and s...1 week ago
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Paddling Anxiety - Anxiety. I’m not normally an anxious person, but paddling rivers can bring those feelings up out of the depths of my normal confident nature. I recently fo...3 weeks ago
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Mogollon Rim Trail day 36: Fin - 5/15/19 Mileage: 13 469.2 miles hiked The canyon is warm and moony during the night, I sleep lightly, in the morning I have terrible diarrhea. A whole mont...1 month ago
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this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorted...
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New trail, new blog! - In case any of you would like to come along, I’m hiking a series of high routes in the Sierra Nevada August and September of 2017. You can read more at kat...1 year ago
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