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Wild Bird Wednesday 737 - Gray-Headed Swamphen - The Gray-Headed Swamphen (*Porphyrio poliocephalus*) is a large - up to about 45 cm - bluish-purple waterbird with a red bill and forehead shield, as well ...
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Origin, Best By, Product Of - What do the labels with barcodes mean, affixed to one corner of each plastic-wrapped tray gleaming in supermarket freezers? From whatbarn and what pasture,...13 hours ago
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When Doing More Is Really an Attempt to Control the Outcome - *“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” ~John Allen Paulos* I refreshed the analytic...23 hours ago
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A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness - A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness Icelandic Fiction Original title: Innansveitarkronika Translator: Philip Roughton Source – Personal copy I have thr...1 day ago
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The True Purpose of Tarot - “Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as to...1 day ago
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Daily Prompt - Relive That Year - If you could relive one year of your life, which one would it be? How about a little twist in this,3 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 3 September 2026 Edition - [image: Untitled] A sunset over the Arkansas River in Tulsa several years ago. The old pedestrian bridge was torn down and replaced by something newer and ...4 days ago
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A Cookbook, A Memoir, A Novel - A COOKBOOK...The best giftsWhen I met up with my blog friend H in Chennai this summer, she brought me sweet gifts- a bar of trendy Dubai chocolate (it was ...
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Can AIs be Conscious? - Are we no longer alone? AIs based on Large Language Models, like ChatGPT or Claude, often produce such plausibly human conversation that we might be tempte...1 week ago
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The End of Summer Reading - Just a quick post to wrap up the 20 Books of Summer and to say thank you to Annabel for her excellent hosting. In the gaps between my sporadic bouts of blo...1 week ago
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Book of the month: Lana Abdelrahman - This Women in Translation month, I’m featuring a collection of short stories by the Lebanese writer and critic Lana Abdelrahman. I had the pleasure of meet...1 week ago
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Haines ordinaires - Contre la marée montante des haines ordinaires, L’extrême droite, ce vieux spectre aux costumes neufs, Est prêt à passer par la fenêtre de nos démocratie...2 weeks ago
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new poem: "Gullable" - Published today at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily. [image: Lunch in Houston] This entry was originally posted at https://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/187608.html. [i...3 weeks ago
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Release day for The Dragon Has Some Complaints! - The Dragon Has Some Complaints is finally out! It feels like ages since I first picked up a pen and jotted down ideas for Garrodigh. His three heads spra...1 month ago
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When Does A Writer Stop Being A Writer? - I have a confession to make. This is only the second post I’ve written here on SMART Living 365 in six months. For someone who almost religiously wrote a...1 month ago
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European science fiction #2 - My short story «Tunnel Fever» has found a new home! I’m so happy to tell you it can now also … Continue reading →1 month ago
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Poetry in the Harbour, June 10th, Nanaimo - Looking forward to reading on June 10th @ Poetry in the Harbour reading series, hosted by Nanaimo Poet Laureate Neil Surkan. I will be reading from Scar/ci...3 months ago
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Make do or Mend? - As a child boots, shoes like clothes in general were never considered a fashion item. Season and suitability was the deciding factor. Wellington boots and ...5 months ago
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When did you last go to the library? - During an idle afternoon on a recent trip to Trivandrum, I visited the State Central Library. Inside the stately Gothic building, a uniformed official was ...8 months ago
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Old English Ivy - old English ivya sudden urge to run wildat seventy-somethingthe wind in my hair Poem only published in The Tanka Society of America Anthology 2023 ***** **...1 year ago
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Collected Novellas, released March 2025. Early reviews - Book Release March 2025 Collected Novellas is published by Unsolicited Press isbn 978-1-963115-98-7 From story-telling author and poet, S.B. Borgersen...
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Ontario Gothic: Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard (1964) - Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard ~ 1964. This edition: Ace, circa 1960s/1970s. Paperback. 142 pages. Look at that – it’s the last day of January already. I ...1 year ago
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The Watchlist: January 2025 - From Columbia University Press | Elephant Herd by Zhang Guixing, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas | Fiction | 240 pages | ISBN 9780231211697 |...1 year ago
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Lighthouse Pieces - 09.30 Xnd XIV/ Flash Fiction/ WDYS 256/ The Lighthouse Losernd 10.01 XXIV/ Flash Fiction/ WDYS 256 / Losing the Lighthouse (part 2) The Lighthouse Loser O...1 year ago
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5 Fun Things to Do In Siem Reap - Yes, you’re going to Siem Reap to see the temples of Angkor. But take it from someone who has been visiting for over 20 years, there’s more to Siem Reap th...2 years ago
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2 Drafts - Time Machine He leaned in, blue curtains drawn around them like big sky, he reached her. The bed bent upright and crooked; machines beeped. She wrapped h...2 years ago
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Is Separation an Excuse for Cheating When You’re Still Married? - When you are separated but still legally married, dating others can be considered cheating depending on the terms of your The post Is Separation an Excus...2 years ago
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Spinoff the book of the year - I'm ending the year with gratitude to the readers and reviewers who enjoyed my debut novel *Between the Flags* (Cuba Press) and giving thanks to The Spin...2 years ago
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Summer's End, New Beginnings - We're back in Montreal after two weeks in central New York working on the lake house. It needs a new roof -- this time I went up there with J. to take a lo...3 years ago
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New Science Nonfiction Review: Blight - Summary: A fascinating book that is both informative and full of great stories. Although humans have most recently experienced a viral pandemic, many of th...3 years ago
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Not So Perfect Strangers by L.S. Stratton - Tasha Jenkins is returning to her abusive husband for the sake of her teenage son when Madeline Gingell runs up to her in traffic and bangs on her window, ...3 years ago
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Poem: Bird / Rose / Moon - My poem Bird/Rose/Moon, which appears in the winter 2023 issue of Indianapolis Review, belongs to an ongoing project that responds to contemporary poems an...3 years ago
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FUEL anthology publication day! - It's publication day for the anthology I edited, FUEL: 75 prizewinning flash fictions by authors around the globe raising funds to fight #FuelPoverty!...
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die Ohrenentzündung - Ei jei jei! Just when I thought I had things in hand ... a dastardly ear infection turned into laryngitis and a sinus issue.So no special festivities (and...
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How reading and writing haiku opens up a whole new world of beauty and more in Nature through the language of haiku…like how it did mine and other poets who responded to Charlotte Digregorio’s call for sharing theirs in her blog: www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com, (post of July 21 - www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com4 years 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...4 years 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 years 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...4 years 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...5 years ago
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The Lonely Robot - The robot had been left behind. In one moment, he was still mining and not paying attention, in the next his masters had left the planet and he was all by ...
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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. ...5 years 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...5 years ago
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The Netherlands opens borders for Serbia and for Montenegro - The Netherlands has followed the advice of the EU to lift ban on entry for several countries. The list of countries will be reviewed every two weeks, or ...6 years ago
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The Truth or Something Like It - by Tommy Vollman I met Joe Nuxhall a few weeks after my fifteenth birthday. His hands were gnarled, and he spoke as though his mouth was half fu...6 years 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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There are daisies in the lawn - There are daisies in the lawn and a dandelion or two, primroses and celandines stand out here and there violets just peeping through. Catkins on the hazel ...6 years 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...6 years ago
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Mammwyn is a name name derived from the Cornish for... - Mammwyn is a name name derived from the Cornish for grandmother. I am now publishing my artist bookworks under this imprint.6 years 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 years ago
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Vereinigung - Honoured that *der Tagesspiegel* selected my story "Unification" to appear in their 22 July issue. "Vereinigung" by Nora Nadjarian, translated into German ...7 years 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 ...7 years 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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‘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...7 years ago
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Dead Organic Matter - You’re told to own your words. But if this was written in first person, how would you ever be held accountable? mockingbird song picking cuticles until the...7 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...
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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...7 years ago
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that same lake, the far shore - 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...8 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...8 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...
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on travelling - There are things you miss, travelling Absent things recalled I miss having my own coffee up, buying machined hot brown something No anticipatory smell from o...8 years ago
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Veera Narayana Temple, Belavadi - Veera Narayana Temple located in Belavadi is an ancient 12th century temple carved in soapstone. This temple comprising of three shrines was built during ...
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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 sorte...
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New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’ - New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’8 years ago
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Punctuation & my pig tale - The New York Times isn't alone in making me ill over its colon usage. But I adore the Times and read it faithfully, so I’m daily aggrieved. The usage I d...9 years ago
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - This is a book I thought for a long time I HAD read, and for some reason, I was sure that it's an easy read. Ha-ha-ha. No, I mean, it IS funny sometimes...
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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...9 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...9 years 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 ...
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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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Congratulations: Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016 - Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf: ? Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay ‘Umlaut’. Competiti...9 years ago
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Then we went to Barcelona - I am dismayed by the many adverse changes that occur as we age, and also aware that virtually all of them were predicted (accurately) by people we knew who...10 years ago
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Ring of Fire by Mary Eliza Crane - At the wane of a long season of heat filled yellow sky, fire consumes mountain forests infested, decimated by bark beetles feasting in their own changing w...
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literary hashtags on twitter: #amreading #shortstory #sixwords #longreads #worldliterature & more - *"Some of the most interesting and useful hashtags on Twitter are designed to build community in the far-flung literary world..."* ...noted Salon Magazi...
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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...10 years ago
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LIFE’S WEAVING - by M.E.Mixer With wondrous skill, in the crowded mill, The spinner her shuttle plies, And watches the web with fear and dread As it forms beneath her eye...11 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...11 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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Resurrecting Those Old Works - Has this happened to you? You read a story or poem online that you enjoy. Wanting to read more from this writer, you follow the link to his or her blog or ...11 years ago
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Rencana Samsung Bangun Pabrik di Vietnam Sudah Direstui - Rencana Samsung Electronic Vietnam membangun pabrik ponsel kedua di bagian utara negara tersebut, telah mendapatkan lampu hijau. [image: Rencana Samsung Ban...11 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.11 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...11 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.” ...11 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...12 years ago
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Albuquerque Biopark - [image: Metal sculptures and living plants] Metal sculptures and living plants12 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...12 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-cul...12 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...12 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...13 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.13 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...13 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...13 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, ...13 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...13 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...13 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. ...13 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...13 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...13 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 →13 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...13 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...13 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...14 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...14 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...15 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 ...
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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...15 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...15 years ago
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Lens-Artists Challenge #412 – Places Shaped by Water - “A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” Laura Gilpin This week John has given us a most interesting challenge...2 days ago
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The Ghost of Me - It’s a strange place to be, this becoming someone new, especially when I’m not sure of my ability to become at all. Words have started flowing in what may ...6 days ago
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Gates of the Arctic 2027 Guided Trips - Three eight-day guided backpacking trips in Gates of the Arctic National Park. One for women, trans and non-binary people, and two that are open to everyon...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 ...7 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 sorte...
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Home! - I flew home yesterday. Dan picked me up from the airport. I leaped into his arms. Home looms, and folds me back in right away. I cuddled my goat. I slept i...11 years ago
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