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Poetry in Stone - 33 - This is thirty-third in the series on the rich cultural heritage of temples in India. The ancient monuments of India are richly carved and they behold one...
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Mrs Robb’s Conscious Bots - So how did you solve the problem of artificial intelligence, Mrs Robb? What was the answer to the riddle of consciousness? “I don’t know what you mean. The...4 hours ago
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On Translating Yolanda Reyes’s “Bobotá” - [image: Image of On Translating Yolanda Reyes’s “Bobotá”] Susannah Greenblatt’s translation of “Bobotá,” an excerpt from Yolanda Reyes’s novel Qué raro qu...6 hours ago
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Nonfiction Review: Weapons of Math Destruction - Summary: This was interesting and the author made some good points, but it was repetitive and not very technical. More and more aspects of our lives are be...7 hours ago
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Switching From a Bullet Journal to a Blue Sky Planner for Work - I started out using a Bullet Journal for Work almost a year ago, and I loved it. It worked, as I had a lot of tasks // issues to stay on top of. My system ...10 hours ago
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365 Challenge: Day 192 - Elements - Elements: experiencing all four of them on the trip today: earth, air, water, and fire Today’s11 hours ago
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Rachel Carson on Science and Our Spiritual Bond with Nature - "Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity."11 hours ago
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7 Reasons to Abandon Your Comfort Zone and Why You’ll Never Regret It - *“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield* Imagine with me for a second. You wake up, roll over, and blindly reach to hit your ...18 hours ago
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twentieth september - Feeling trapped and frustrated, stubbornly fighting what cannot be changed.19 hours ago
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Wild Bird Wednesday 269 - Great Crested Grebe - I'm almost at the end of the birds I photographed when I was in Europe, and it seems appropriate to feature a bird that I can see both on my travels to the...
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ignore bloglovin - Follow my blog with Bloglovin Advertisements Filed under: #translationthurs1 day ago
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Golden years - Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys: "to see things go old makes me fearful of change I used to be old as a settled business content with a...1 day ago
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(g) Twiglets 42/ mix/ ‘scent’sational (9.19) - ‘scent’sational (pi ku, Cherita, tanka) autumn sheds its leaves on water ~ Yellow willow, aureate chestnut Citrine ash, amber maple Ruby fire from burning ...1 day ago
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The Stink and The Shame - They started rebuilding the sewers the week I left Belfast. Now they were fully underway the smell overpowered everything. The post The Stink and The Sha...1 day ago
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Ellis 007 - For Prediction Fiction here This weeks words: ambiguous, cane, solitary The sausages sizzled in the pan, along with a solitary flat mushroom. I was ambiguo...1 day ago
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I'm Guest Poet at Poets to the People: Sunday 24 September 4–6pm, Hightide Cafe, 43 Marine Parade, Paraparaumu Beach. Should be fun! - *From Poets to the People Newsletter* Our next event: Sunday 24 September 4–6pm, Hightide Café, 43 Marine Parade, Paraparaumu Beach We welcome Tim Jones...
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Dodgy Autoimmune system or not? - I studied what was called Domestic Science in 1966 at college for two years, when I decided not to be a shorthand typist and being an artist was not an opt...2 days ago
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REAL NOSE JOB - Deadline to meet. Read the rest at the main Blaugustine: http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/blaugustine.html
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now I assemble things that resemble whatever used to be - Today's subject line is from "Fanfare in D Major (Come, Come)," by Grant Hart, who died of cancer a few days ago. I'm listening to a bunch of his songs as ...2 days ago
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Pilchicocha - (Part 2 of a series that began here.) This is no beach vacation, I recall one reviewer on TripAdvisor saying. You wake up at five-thirty, breakfast at six,...3 days ago
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Teenage Kicks - The Baltimore Boys by Joel Dicker is a novel in which The Sorrows of Young Werther meets Sidney Sheldon, a sentence I’ve been looking forward to writing ev...3 days ago
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The Value of a Literature Course - At Chronicle Vitae, Rob Jenkins has written about the ways he tries to sell students on taking literature courses. I quibble with the idea of literature as...3 days ago
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Hut - Schnut, Schnut, heut' geht's Dir wieder gut! My dearest Mama would honour this season of Schnitzel and Sauerkraut by repeating this phrase. Happy Oktoberfe...
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skies, places, creative spaces: spotting Venus, "Situation colorful", Paris, daily digital paintings, and learnings - *Sky guest* There was a fleeting morning moment this week: looking out I saw a bright spot in the sky - Venus, I remembered, and checking an regional sky ...
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Writers Reading Writers - Imagine you’ve recently discovered an internet radio show where the host, a stuffed bear, pairs literary readings with music. (He might also pair readings ...4 days ago
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Appalachian Eulogy - by *Robert Dugan* I grunted while wrestling the heavy, dusty box wedged in crawl space of my apartment. I had outgrown the cramped place, and my ...5 days ago
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How To Create Your Own Blue Zone For A Long, Healthy And Happy Life - Did you know there are several unique locations in the world where people typically live to be over 100 years old? Not only do the majority of the resident...5 days ago
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Postcard from my bookshelf #9 - This month, the random-number generator led me to an intriguing comment. It was posted back in January by Rachel Unklesbay and went as follows: I’ve just s...5 days 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’5 days ago
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Skywtach Friday - 14 August 2017 Edition - [image: 20170909-140910-33] Welcome to another edition of Skywatch Friday! Thank you for your participation by both linking your blog posts here and visiti...6 days ago
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Thirteen Days of Hiking on Corsica -- Cascades de Purcaraccia - The deceptively easy path near the start of the trailIf you're headed to the mountains on Corsica, chances are you'll happen upon Bocca di Larone, a popul...
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Persistence - Knitting, while listening to music, has been my relaxation in the evenings after long days of writing and editing. I finished my green Gansey sweater a wee...6 days ago
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Ekphrasis: Between Image and Word - Over the past few months, I have been collaborating with artist and painter Maria Pierides on an ekphrastic project. The result is Ekphrasis, the forthcom...
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New novel: Now We Can See The Moon - My new novel Now We Can See The Moon will be published by Snuggly Books, who also released Vessel and Solsvart, my collection of dark fairy tales. Will pos...
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all this, sustenance - I am thrilled that my poem all this will be coming out in an anthology on local food. Sustenance: Writers from B.C. and Beyond on the Subject of Food antho...1 week ago
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Octopus v.2 - I’m over in the States for the Windham-Campbell festival at Yale (Knausgaard!) and the Brooklyn Book Festival (Philip Lopate! Elif Batuman! Ann Powers! (wh...1 week ago
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Accessing history… - Over the last two days of our stay in Ireland we spent time with Lindsey, another cousin of my father’s. Although Lindsey and I are close in age we had nev...1 week ago
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The Rarely Asked Questions 2017 - Happy birthday to people who were born on the same day as myself! Today I'm celebrating by playing the RAQ: the Rarely Asked Questions. Everything here was...
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Wild wood review - “To walk *In the Wild Wood*is to enter worlds where the mundane is made magical” states the blurb on the back cover of Frances Gapper’s newest short st...
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Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong - * "Today after you lost a tooth, you cried that you looked like a pumpkin.* * Today I had to stop by the post office and you looked around and...
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Proposal - A monochrome mooring of black barges edged the bank of a silver-sheened canal, mercury disturbed only by the slow-unfurling wake from a stately swan, unvee...
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Flash Special: Puzzles and pieces (August 2017 / 17.9) - Flash Special: Puzzles and pieces (August 2017 / 17.9) Jim Zola has worked in a warehouse, as a security guard, in a bookstore, as a teacher for deaf child...2 weeks ago
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Harvey - I wrote a poem this morning inspired by Hurricane Harvey. Here's the question: why does my Muse only seem to whisper inspiration during times of natural ...
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On my way to buy a morning paper #78 - Beneath a sorry-looking tree of unknown type (dusty diseased leaves, green berry clusters) a circle of crisp and huddled leaves; colour chart for painting v...3 weeks ago
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Gathering Hudson Bay Tea - Hudson Bay Tea: s’ikshaldéen (Tlingit language) Gathering tea with ElderRESOURCES: USDA Plant Guide: Alberta Plant Watch Edible Wild Foods Sealas...
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Rural Living Affirmation: Country Chronicle by Gladys Taber - Country Chronicle by Gladys Taber ~ 1974. This edition: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-397-01023-0. 220 pages. Gladys Taber needs no int...3 weeks ago
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Whole Masoor Amti - Have you ever watched those "Where are they now?" TV specials where they track down the cast of some popular show from a bygone era and catch up on what th...
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The Critics - One thing I didn't give much thought to were the negative critics. I guess I never planned on writing anything people would want to read enough to criticiz...5 weeks ago
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Debt Preorder Now Open - Debt is available for preorder, with most proceeds going to The Greater Cleveland Food Bank, ACLU & ADL. I’ve also submitted a proposal for BGSU’s… Read...1 month ago
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Table of contents in Pacific Monsters is launched - Just a short note to tell you that Fox Spirit Books has launched the table of contents for Pacific Monsters, … Continue reading →1 month ago
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Blog version which point-0? - Trying, once again, to revitalize this space. Maybe I will re-create this blog as I re-create myself: six months out from my thesis presentation and one mo...1 month ago
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Shanghai Street Scenes - Wandering around Shanghai, I could not help but be fascinated by the colorful and varied scenes from everyday life in the city. As in many cosmopolitan cit...2 months 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 months ago
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Echos - Journal Infirme n°31 Dimanche 25 juin 2017. Echos perçus et sollicités. Pendant plusieurs jours, nous avons visité des églises dans le Cotentin, passant de...2 months 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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Why do we doubt ourselves - photo credit V. Conrad I was all set to write a blog about the benefits of reading our work in public (note the pic of me seriously reading Love on a Wedn...5 months ago
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Observations: April, 2017 - My father once told me he'd been a genius for a few days. For fewer than a hundred hours in his life, sometime in his early forties, everything made sense....5 months ago
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Debate: Saraswati Pujas should continue to be organized in schools across Bengal - For the Motion: Mosarrap H Khan First, the call for a stop to Saraswati Puja celebrations in schools (especially the public-funded ones) comes from a new-f...
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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...6 months ago
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Participation in "Sardam: Alternative Literary Festival" - A performance of my work "Tempus Fugit" in October 2016. Photos by Ore.
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Trainstorm-An Anthology of Alternative Train Poetry- a Review - Trainstorm-An Anthology of Alternative Train Poetry Ed. Dr. Amitabh Mitra The Poets Printery, East London, South Africa Date of publication: October 2016 P...
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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...7 months ago
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Bearing Witness--The Wall - Today they started building The Wall. When I woke this morning and went down to the kitchen, Mum and Dad weren’t there. I followed the low murmur of the t...
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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...8 months ago
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Last time in Lyttelton - When I first came to Lyttelton, it was December 2011. I came because I was in New Zealand for two and a half months without much of a plan, and the opportu...
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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...9 months ago
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Thanks - Thank you so much for all your kind words, dedications and time given to thinking of Mum/Viv during the time of her funeral. In particular, thanks to Lind...1 year ago
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November: Lamprey River - New comparisons of video quality after researching better upload methods.1 year ago
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book spine haiku… - 1. then and now… the little prince under the sea wind 2. far to go– the concubine when the wells run dry 3. the piano– basil and the pygmy cats joy luc...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...2 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 ...2 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...2 years ago
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cascade - The book of prairie is broad with stories and platters of bottom land, bald eagles in the cottonwoods waiting for another day to fly. This is how we know a...2 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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Bow Ties on the Radio - Most people know today as tax day, but for me it’s a year since this dapper chap wandered into the department office suite while I was prepping for student...2 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...2 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.” ...2 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 ...3 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...3 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...3 years ago
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The Book and Biscuit Has Moved! - Hello, I’ve moved to self host so all posts can now be found at The Book and Biscuit3 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...3 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...3 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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Blog moved to Wordpress - My main blog is now Poetry Notes and Jottings on Wordpress. Updates for 2013 will be visible there.4 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...4 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...4 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, ...4 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...4 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...4 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. ...4 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...4 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 →4 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...4 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...4 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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I can’t go on, I’ll go on - Met a few old writer friends for pasta, beer and ice cream. I notice how I’m relentlessly trying to stir the discussion away from trivialities and towards ...5 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...5 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...5 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...6 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...6 years ago
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Of Bitches and Bastards - Okay, so I'm on my own now. There's a lot of stuff I need to learn how to do, and not just home maintenance stuff that used to fall on Dan. I've got al...6 years ago
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Help Me Understand Prayer - So when it comes to prayer, I am a bit shaky. For some reason, all the steps and instructions that I used to know so well just don't seem authentic anymo...
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skies, places, creative spaces: spotting Venus, "Situation colorful", Paris, daily digital paintings, and learnings - *Sky guest* There was a fleeting morning moment this week: looking out I saw a bright spot in the sky - Venus, I remembered, and checking an regional sky ...
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Trails: Time to Give Back - Summer is most certainly coming to an end in Oregon, and while the days are getting shorter, we are still inundated with smoke from more wildfires than I c...6 days ago
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I need to get something off my chest/I was rescued off the Hayduke last year - Hello internet. I just finished thru-hiking a 180-mile loop of the Kings Canyon High Basin Route, and it was incredible. I’m working on those blog posts ri...1 week ago
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Waiting for Irma – WPC - “Waiting’s exhausting.” Toba Beta For the vast majority of time, life on a barrier island is idyllic. When one is … Continue Reading Waiting for Irma – WPC1 week ago
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The Critics - One thing I didn't give much thought to were the negative critics. I guess I never planned on writing anything people would want to read enough to criticiz...5 weeks 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...1 month ago
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