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Into the Heart of Life: Richard Powers on Living with Bewilderment at the Otherworldly Wonder of Our World - "That’s the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego."9 hours ago
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Glass Flowers - ~ after "On Extreme Fragility" (Homage to Blaschka), Anne Poirier, Patrick Foirier, with Pino Signoretto (blown, hot-worked glass, 2003) These flowers trav...10 hours ago
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Day 94 - Abstract Shadows - Olympus E-M10 Mark IV @ ISO 100 , 34mm, f5.6, 1/80s This photo was taken on my walk to my class in t11 hours ago
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Poem film - Still Life With Octopus (I) - Here I am reading one of the title poems from my new poetry collection, “Still Life With Octopus”. The book will be published on July 7th by Nin...21 hours ago
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Lovin’ a bike don’t you? - My dad was a master craftsman with a growing family and other responsibilities he had limited resources and time to explore other creative and or business ...1 day ago
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Reading Doldrums, reading rotation a new Horizons - I sat the last few days and tried to think why My reading has felt flat for a good while. I have at times acted passionate about books but in my heart of h...2 days ago
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Food in Fiction: A Lesson Plan Based on Koo Byung-Mo’s “Wizard Bakery” - This lesson plan is based on Teaching Idea #1, “Food in Fiction,” for the South Korean YA novel excerpt “Wizard Bakery.” Students will closely read descr...2 days ago
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Society of Designer Craftsmen Exhibition, Bankside Gallery - Meeting some of the wonderful makers at the opening of *Transformations* the Society of Designer Craftsmen exhibition at the Bankside Gallery on Tuesday 14...2 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 23 June 2022 Edition - [image: Untitled] The summer solstice has happened and it is hot and dry here in Oklahoma. Of course we don't complain. It is Oklahoma after all. It'll coo...2 days ago
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How To Keep Moving Forward When You Feel Like Shutting Down - *“I can’t believe what I’m managing to get through.” ~Frank Bruni* My worst fear was inflicted upon me three months ago: a cancer diagnosis—non-Hodgkin’s...3 days ago
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market arguments - My essay on fighting for our affordable homes landed in my mailbox today. It is in the Summer 2022 issue of the Queens Quarterly. The full title is: Market...3 days ago
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Travels With Kathy & Thom Part 6–Maratea to Amalfi Coast - Back when Thom and I were deciding where to go on our European Adventure I knew it was time to visit the east coast of Southern Italy. Like most people,...4 days ago
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June (F)avorites - It’s been a hectic few months for me, but I’m so glad to be back sharing a favorites post with you. These are things that I use and love in my daily life. ...4 days ago
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Wild Bird Wednesday 517 - Little Raven - The Little Raven (*Corvus mellori*) is the default raven (or as most people would call them 'crow') in Melbourne. You have to got further North and West...5 days ago
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mid-summer - mid-summer the fragrance of roses in the air . The beautiful roses are from a friend’s garden. (Fragrance from memory,)5 days ago
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Déménagement - J. and M. on our terrace in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal, in 2012. We're moving. That little statement could mean all sorts of things. But the French word...1 week ago
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New Fiction: "The Coward Who Stole God's Name" at Uncanny Magazine - Today I'm happy to present to you my newest short story: "The Coward Who Stole God's Name." It's a story about the most popular man in the world - even th...2 weeks ago
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Reading the World: a new edition - I have a bit of news. I have a book coming out in September. Actually, it’s a new edition of my first book, Reading the World – seven years after the origi...2 weeks ago
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On my way to buy a paper #102 - Early morning, squeezed betwixt kerbstone and black tarmac of the road, a solitary poppy. Eight inches tall, scarlet petals damp and creased: impossible...2 weeks ago
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Indian-Style Coleslaw - Memorial Day at the start of this week marked the unofficial start of Summer 2022. Our family has already taken a long trip to the UK earlier this year to ...2 weeks ago
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The Mind is its Own Place: In Conversation with Stephen Reed - *When I started at Northwood as a ninth grader, I was decidedly a nerd: small, sort of shy, dorky in my fleece and khakis. The friends I had were the one...3 weeks ago
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Never Greener by Ruth Jones - Whisper it, but sometimes the joy of reading is being able to rubber neck as characters make disastrous lifestyle choices and sit in judgement of the fallo...3 weeks ago
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Blurb says "No more ebook" - Starting mid-July 2022, Blurb will no longer support the creation and publishing of ebooks. Much as I personally dislike the format, and prefer print, it ...3 weeks ago
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Featured poet today at: - https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2022/05/tuesday-may-24-2022-alegria-imperials.html4 weeks ago
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potatoes - The rudest thing I do, or one of the rudest things, is sometimes I don’t get back to people. This has been going on for years, and it’s a deranged and filt...5 weeks ago
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Independence Day - Girls didn’t leave home until the wedding in those days. Still, she was bound for the city, watching the darkness gather outside the window, her body relax...1 month ago
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NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize - I'm over-the-moon and full of gratitude to have been made the shortlist of five for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cub Press Prize, for writing with *'a unique a...1 month ago
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Around the World in 1998-1999; The Amalfi Coast and Pompeii - What it was like to travel in Italy on the Amalfi Coast and to see Pompeii in 1999.1 month ago
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sic transit gloria - [image: roses] [image: roses] [image: roses] This won't be news to most readers, but in my corner of the world, one can simultaneously rejoice in how well ...1 month ago
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DakhaBrakha - The Road / ДахаБраха - Шлях - ♪ ♫ an amazing album ... please listen to this group of amazing musicians from Ukraine when you have a chance. Hell, make the time! If this culture goes do...1 month ago
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Book birthday for Winter Tales - It’s birthday for the anthology Winter Tales today! It was published by Fox Spirit Books in 2016. This was a … Continue reading →3 months ago
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Welcome to Television Land: The Children on the Top Floor by Noel Streatfeild (1964) - The Family on the Top Floor by Noel Streatfeild ~ 1964. This edition: Random House, 1965. Hardcover. 248 pages. Goodness, look at that calendar! Almost Mar...3 months ago
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Cover reveal - Eva Matson - Eva Matson is a novella. It will be released on May 26th 2022. Details to follow.4 months ago
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Not yet, but soon… - In my pondering over the aesthetics of joy this month I was intrigued to find that the idea of anticipation is often a factor in our experience of joy. Exp...4 months ago
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A brief encounter - Probably just a handful of you know how gregarious I am that person who talks to strangers on the train, in the supermarket queue or as yesterday in the st...5 months ago
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The campsite near Silver Peak, north east of Thunder Island - I remember, it was difficult to get up much enthusiasm for foraging in our stay here, as the Silver Salmon Inn served such delicious food., but we did ...5 months ago
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Iceland Retreat 2021 & Some New Work - Condolences To Those Who Have Heard of My Exaggerated Death Chuck was honest this way. I could trust him with my life. So, when a bear came into camp th...7 months ago
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Chapbook release - "As our children walked in circles, their children shook their heads and made their way toward another life; new ghosts remained. And we began to band t...7 months ago
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Jude Vachon: Progressive Librarian (1964-2021) - Jude Vachon reading at Nine Stories Bookstore in Pittsburgh, 2018. I don’t know how to tell you that Jude Vachon is gone. Jude was often wildly happy and...9 months ago
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The Thing About ‘STEM’ - When I was young, I got the impression very early that I should go into science and be good at math. It’s actually one of my earlier memories: if I could b...11 months ago
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Lockdown diary - The house across the street is a two storey building whose roof terrace is in level with our balcony. Every morning I see an elderly man watering the plant...1 year ago
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A Reminder-poem - My love is a wound on your left thigh It will not fade with time The wound on the heart does But I have left a reminder. ~Abha Iyengar, March 25, 2011. (Up...1 year ago
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[sponsored] How Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology Is Changing the Online Gambling Industry - Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are emerging and taking over existing industries. Blockchain is a decentralized system to keep track of data. ...1 year ago
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In Memory of Mums - At Christmas time we are reminded of Christmases past and those that are no longer with us. It has been a hard year for a lot of us and we lost my Mother-i...1 year ago
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New website/ New blog - This blog has moved. I have a new website and new blog here. Please visit www.noranadjarian.com for the latest news on my writing!1 year ago
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Seating Consciousness - This short piece by Tam Hunt in Nautilus asks whether the brain’s electromagnetic fields could be the seat of consciousness. What does that even mean? Let’...1 year ago
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Review: D (A Tale of Two Worlds) - Dhikilo is a young orphan from Somaliland (not to be confused with Somalia, which everyone she meets does) growing up in a very English home in a very En...1 year ago
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New Location, New Look! - After many happy years on Blogspot, my blog has moved - and I have a new website. Here's my new blog - with all the old content from this site: https://ww...1 year ago
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A Life in Five Buicks - by Linda Boroff Roadmaster Summertime, Hopkins, Minnesota: I toddle from the back door of the Elmo Park Apartments, skinny in suspendered blue corduroy pa...1 year ago
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New Blog Location - Hi all and thank you so much to anyone who is still following me here or has started following me recently! I noticed that a couple of people have found me...1 year ago
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Poem: Our Assorted Quarantines - My poem, Our Assorted Quarantines, about living on an island COVID-19 has not (yet) reached while friends and family around the world have to isolate thems...2 years 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...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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.2 years 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...3 years 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...3 years 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...3 years ago
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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...3 years 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...3 years 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...4 years 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...4 years 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...4 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...4 years 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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’ - New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’4 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...4 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...5 years ago
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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...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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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...5 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 years ago
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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...7 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-- * *...7 years ago
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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.7 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...7 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.” ...7 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 ...7 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 ...7 years ago
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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...7 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...8 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...8 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 ~8 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...8 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 ...8 years ago
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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...8 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.9 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...9 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...9 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, ...9 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...9 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...9 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. ...9 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...9 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...9 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 →9 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...9 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...9 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’...9 years ago
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Hakawati - Hakawati, qui signifie – diseur de Conte – en langue arabe, est une errance paisible. C’est un voyage qui débute dans un aéroport et nous mène dans une d...9 years ago
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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...10 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...10 years ago
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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...10 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...10 years ago
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Sahabat Anak Leaving Party - Sadly, as my teaching contract draws to a close in Indonesia, it is time to say goodbye to my beloved friends and students from Sahabat Anak, Prumpung. As ...11 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...11 years ago
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Lens-Artists Challenge #205 – The Eyes Have it - “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.” Charlotte Bronte It’s been said that the ...22 hours ago
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Connections – The Shakedown Hike, Day 4: 8 miles (43.7 total) - The wind was cold last night. I thought about taking the rainfly off the tent because its mind-numbing flapping was barely tolerable, but the thin nylon wa...4 days ago
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The Mind is its Own Place: In Conversation with Stephen Reed - *When I started at Northwood as a ninth grader, I was decidedly a nerd: small, sort of shy, dorky in my fleece and khakis. The friends I had were the one...3 weeks ago
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Zines for sale! - Long distance hiking zines #1, #2 and #5 are now available as beautiful full-color zines with the photos fully integrated! You can read about my walks acro...4 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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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