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Wild Bird Wednesday 401 - Australasian Swamphen - These pictures were taken about 3 weeks - ie about half a lifetime - ago, on what turned out to be one of my last local trips before such things became re...
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Book of the month: Nino Haratischvili - In the UK, just before the Covid-19 lockdown came into force (an experience I have begun documenting on a new blog), there was a book-buying boom. Forced w...1 hour ago
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Seclusion Aria - When the old have lived their livesalmost to the end, you will findalmost all their teeth are either gone or worn down to nubs as touch-sensitive as the ol...3 hours ago
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This Is Chance: The Story of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and the Remarkable Woman Who Magnetized People into Falling Together as Their World Fell Apart - "What is safety, anyway? How can you predict where or when tragedy will occur? You can only learn to live with it and make the best of it when it happens."3 hours ago
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Week 3 - The deeper reality is here. We’re home, for awhile probably. It’s sinking into my stomach now. It’s been long enough that I knew what was happening, sort o...5 hours ago
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2020 365: Day 90 (March 30) - The prompt today is “Recipe”. No real recipe, just roasted potatoes comin’ up!5 hours ago
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How Conflict in Relationships Can Be a Catalyst for Growth - *“The mind is the place the soul goes to hide from the heart.” ~Michael Singer* “You think you’re so much better than me!!” As this phrase—laced with co...7 hours ago
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Side Effects - by Susan Nash In our family we don’t get cancer. We get drunk. We take drugs. We smoke. We have a wide variety of personality disorders. We fall down and ...11 hours ago
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Booked Out March - How was your month in books? We’ve been needing some escapism in our lives, but sometimes it’s been hard to concentrate … but there’s nothing like getting ...14 hours ago
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‘spine’ in Bones! - . a woman’s work inside her locked spine Happy to be included in Bones 19, March 2020. Many thanks to Johannes S. H. Bjerg!16 hours ago
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The City and the Writer: In Lisbon with Patricio Ferrari - [image: Image of The City and the Writer: In Lisbon with Patricio Ferrari] If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I ...17 hours ago
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meme - Via [image: [personal profile]]*el_staplador* Last time I traveled abroad: May 2019 - Cancún - wedding celebration for my friends David and Josh Last time...1 day ago
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der Gleichmut - In the German language, I understand what my friend means immediately ~ Gleichmut. She wrote the letter to me in English, however, so when I read "with equ...
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What do we do when the water rises - I thought I'd read you 'What do we do when the water rises', a poem from my collection, Terms & Conditions, which takes inspiration from the fire ant in ti...1 day ago
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This book. This beautiful book. - Despite COVID-19, despite all the uncertainty, despite all the suffering, books exist. Honoured to have been chosen to contribute to this outstanding antho...
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What matters most? - As many of you know since I retired I have worked at my local volunteer run Community Library. I love libraries and the amazing access they provide to idea...1 day ago
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Society for the Development of the Asexual Female Supervillain - A woman wearing a tinfoil mask held a sword that skewered five kids’ decapitated heads. “He got it right, Fourth Place.” The post Society for the Develop...1 day ago
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Top 50 Free Games You Can Play; During the COVID-19 Alert - Top 50+ Free Games You Can Play; During the COVID-19 Alert The Coronavirus spread has implied that for the individuals who love hustling, be it among veh...2 days ago
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SELF-ISOLATING DIY - All the DIY which was on my pre-op To Do list is now finished and whenever the hip replacement does take place I'll be ready, thanks to self-isolation, the...
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Hermit Diary, Montreal. 11. What to say? - Olive prunings, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy. Writers write. At the beginning of March, when we cancelled our trip and it became clear that the virus was comin...2 days ago
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the day lily (parallel) - we wonder about paradise waiting for sunset as if a beggar th...3 days ago
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The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara - The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Argentinean fiction Original title – Las Aventuras de la China Iron Translators – Fiona Mackintosh...3 days ago
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Is This The Transformation We Have All Been Waiting For? - “Sometimes things have to break down before they can break through.” I read on the internet yesterday that our country, and perhaps the world, is on th...3 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 26 March 2020 Edition - [image: 2020_0324_153303_309] I hope that everybody in our Skywatch Community is staying safe and practicing social distancing and being careful. These are...4 days ago
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Notes From the Bunker - 23rd March 2020 The first thing I said to my CBT therapist on our skype call last weekend was: I’ve picked one hell of a time to deal with my health anxiet...5 days ago
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A Kaiju Story in Nature Magazine? - Call this one a career goal! I've got a brand new story for you about giant monsters published by Nature. The Nature Futures program, which runs Science Fi...5 days ago
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time to work on writing - Suddenly, I find myself with time on my hands. Work sent us home, the yoga studio of 25 years is permanently shutting down, and events are cancelling left ...1 week ago
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Gran’s Golden Wedding - For Mother’s Day – a poem from Mum’s ‘Old Poetry from OU Courses’ file: I was sixteen, the grans were 72. Now I’m 72 and the grans long gone but their part...1 week ago
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Free short fiction - It’s really strange days. I hope you all and your loved ones are doing well. Take care and stay home, … Continue reading →1 week ago
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One-Pot Rajma Chawal, Pizza and Quarantine Reading - We are sheltering in place, like broad swaths of the globe. I have started my new role as a second grade homeschool teacher. My daughter's public school ha...
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The almost mothers review - *A first time mum struggles with her newborn baby. An alien examines the lives of Earth Mothers. A baby sleeps through the night at long last...1 week ago
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The Blackbird - “During the last two hundred years the blackbird has abandoned the woods to become a city bird. First in Great Britain at the end of the eighteenth century...2 weeks ago
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Eleven - I was cleaning up my desktop while avoiding writing my column, and I came across this old photo of Jerry. It’s him at the vet’s in July 2014 after he’d bee...5 weeks ago
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Reading Events for 2020 & People Holding - New fiction last month in People Holding alongside some other great authors, including friends Nancy Stohlman and Len Kuntz. I’ll be reading in June for th...5 weeks ago
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Blackball Readers and Writers Festival 2020 - I'm very happy to have been invited to take part in the second Blackball Readers and Writers Festival at Queen's Birthday Weekend. Below is info about the ...
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Stories wot I wrote - A few kind people have asked about the stories I mentioned. The ones that have achieved some kind of recognition are these: Title Plot Competition Result C...1 month ago
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Review: Girl, Woman, Other - Girl, Woman, Other is a beautifully written verse novel about twelve very different women across different decades, eras and ages. Set mostly in England ...1 month ago
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Front and Back Matter, does it matter? - image: S.B. Borgersen I don’t know about you, but when I have a new book in my hand I take time to consider the front matter, from the cover all the way...
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On my way to buy a morning paper #93 - Bullfinch pink filling for a sandwich between bullfinch blue hills and clouds of identical hue.2 months ago
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How to Make the Most of 48 Hours in Luxor Egypt - How to spend 48 hours in Luxor Egypt and hit all the highlights; Karnak and Luxor temples, local markets, Hatshepsut's Temple and the Valley of the Kings...2 months ago
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Words Matter: The Lateral Learnings of a Writer - As a writer and editor and sometimes book reviewer, I pick up some nuggets through casual conversations, some word that flies in the air, or a work I s...2 months ago
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A slightly unfinished business: Table Two by Marjorie Wilenski (1942) - Table Two by Marjorie Wilenski ~ 1942. This edition: Dean Street Press, 2019. (Furrowed Middlebrow – FM35). Softcover. 224 pages. Those of us with a pencha...3 months ago
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Brilliant Blurb! - Uploaded to Blurb Saturday afternoon - received before midday today. To-be-proofed copies of 'Drink with a dead man' plus an anthology of my favourite stor...
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A Snapshot of Current Beliefs - "A Snapshot of Current Beliefs" video poem by Vivian Faith Prescott Collage poem by Vivian Faith Prescott A Snapshot of Current Beliefs I think of t...
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Core Star - Core Star: Link to my other website where I have created an animation showing the manifestation of change and constancy through this pattern.5 months ago
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New site, late goodbye - Hello, Friends! Observation: I am not actively blogging here anymore, but I never said goodbye. I have never been great at goodbyes. But I'm not trying to...6 months ago
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Tomorrow I will be an art student …. this girl’s dream come true. - On the day before I begin another stage of my journey; I have changed the name of my Blog. My real name is Helen; but I have rarely used that in my workin...6 months ago
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King Tide Twilight - King Tide Twilight, a work of persona poetry, came out in Rougarou‘s Winter 2019 issue. Read more →6 months ago
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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...8 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...1 year ago
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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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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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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(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...2 years ago
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A poem a week... - https://ofkells.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-2018-poet-bloggers-revival-tour.html2 years 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’2 years 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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 ...4 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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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.5 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...5 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.” ...5 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 ...5 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...5 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...6 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...6 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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Soundbites About Divergent - Title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Narrators: Emma Galvin Rating (Story): ★★☆☆☆ Rating (Narration):★★★★★ In the world of Divergent, society is divided ...6 years ago
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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...6 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...6 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...7 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. ...7 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...7 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...7 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 →7 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...7 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...7 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...8 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...8 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...8 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 ...8 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...9 years ago
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Gila River Day 5 - If the sky could have opened up and dumped as much rain as possible on the Gila last night, it did. The torrential downpour and high winds had us all in ou...16 hours ago
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Lens-Artists Challenge #90 – Distance - “From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white….” Julie Gold These days, everyone’s talking about and hopefully pract...
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Mutual Aid - Mutual Aid. I live in a working class neighborhood in Tucson. I started thinking about a possible future lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic- what would ...2 weeks ago
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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...8 months 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...2 years ago
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