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Continue reading →: KnowingA little slice-of-life story I wrote some time ago, about knowing each other. ——————————————————————————- The coffee shop was still empty when he walked in, the lights still soft in the early dawn and painting the burgundy walls a paler pink and the wood a worn tan. The shop was…
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Continue reading →: MusingsThis was originally written for a flash-writing contest. I did not place so here it is! ——————————————————————————- “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Nick disliked the quote, now printed before him in the morning paper. Not only did it ignore those that learned, only…
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Continue reading →: Crunch time and…job apps?God what a month it’s been! As usual, everything happens at once, including things breaking at home and the semester ending before I even realized it was November. We are behind this year in my curriculum; I’ve had to cut out or reduce what I teach from our second large…
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Continue reading →: Working on…
Finished a painting and picked up some texture and shine products from Blick…kinda enjoying the coarse material used here on the sun face.
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Continue reading →: On HateExceptionally nervous to share this one because of how so many people conflate the Israeli gov’t with people who happen to be Jewish (and then scream “antisemite!!!” as a defense). But I was asked to speak out when I saw cruelty being done towards any group of people. So I…
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Continue reading →: Time, More or LessI thought about time How much we get; who is given it and I shook my head. No, I do not need more of it; I’d go crazy with too much sand hissing through the gap. What I need, what we all need, is not more time. Give me the…
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Continue reading →: Inspiration? Or just my dramatic cats?So, when I moved in with my mother to help her deal with the more physical household stuff, I brought my cats. Unfortunately, we had a family member who moved and whose two cats might have ended at a shelter that wasn’t no-kill. So we took them in too. (One,…
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Continue reading →: Burn-outBone-deep, the weariness places lead in my feet. I sleep deeply, really, but bone-deep, the weariness pulls my mind to a place of static exhaustion. And yet more is given: of work, of forms, of responsibilities. In return I get “why do you pick on my child?” when I ask…
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Continue reading →: 5-Minute Writer: Invisible for a DayThis one was funny, since it isn’t listed in the book’s table of contents and happens to be about being invisible. Corny, but amusing. It asks us to consider what we’d do if, for one day, we were invisible. To be invisible for a day would begin with shock and…
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Continue reading →: The 5-Minute Writer: Remote-Association
This is a neat little chapter and exercise. Remote-association is the creation of connections between previously unlinked things that are distant in time and/or space. The example the book gives is as follows: A crescent moon at morning “fades like fat in a frying pan”. That’s interesting. And you can…
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