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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ~ Terry Pratchett, from Reaper Man
“Black Bowl” (1907)by George Seeley Two for Tuesday: From Light to Dark and Dark to Light Within light there is darkness, But do not try to understand that darkness. Wi… more →
Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ~ Terry Pratchett, from Reaper Man
wrote 9 hours ago: “Black Bowl” (1907)by George Seeley Two for Tuesday: From Light to D … more →
“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.” ~ Kamila Shamsie, from Kartography
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wrote 1 week ago: “y nadie puede, nadie puede evadir los pasos del corazón que corre calla … more →
"You’re a mother, aren’t you? There’s kindness in your eyes. And sadness. But a ferocity too." ~ Dr. Who, from "A Town Called Mercy" (7.3)
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wrote 1 week ago: Happy Mother’s Day to all of you out there! Typewriter Series #411 by Tyle … more →
The youth gets ...
wrote 1 week ago: The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temp … more →
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
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wrote 2 weeks ago: “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he … more →
"Something new in the air today, perhaps the struggle of the bud to become a leaf. Nearly two weeks late it invaded the air but then what is two weeks to life herself?" ~ Jim Harrison, from "Spring"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Paper Whites by kcentannial Two for Tuesday: Moments in Time From the Writer … more →
“Let me keep my mind on what matters . . . which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” ~ Mary Oliver
wrote 3 weeks ago: “Villiers-le-Bel” (Peach Blossoms), (ca. 1887-89, oil on canvas)by Childe Hassam … more →
Two for Tuesday: Longing and Need
wrote 4 weeks ago: Paris, 1964by Edouard Boubat “Though you have never possessed me I have belonged to you since the be … more →
"Dazed and dramatic ignorance" ~ G. K. Chesterton
wrote 1 month ago: Two for Tuesday: What is not known “One of the deepest and strangest of al … more →
"It's very important for me to feel like I'm going through life, not accidentally slipping around it. That's something that can happen very easily to all of us. " ~ Jorie Graham
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wrote 1 month ago: Daring to Live in the Details Jorie Graham interviewed by Timothy Cahill, The Christian Science Moni … more →
"Perhaps she guessed her own destiny. That happens.” ~ Carlos Fuentes, from "A Family Like Any Other"
wrote 1 month ago: Two for Tuesday: May Sarton Letters from Maine Yes, I am home again, and alone. … more →
Zofia Grochowalska Abramowicz
wrote 1 month ago: Zofia as an adult, following the war. I have only 2 photos of Zofia, and one of her gravesite in Pol … more →
"I found some 3 a.m. turbulence in pitch black sleeping | beside the railroad tracks off Wilson Road." ~ Rachel McKibbens, from untitled poem
wrote 1 month ago: Letter from My Brain to My Heart This house is dirty, but comfortable. Behind ea … more →
“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.” ~ Mary Oliver
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wrote 1 month ago: Male Lesser Goldfinchmatt knoth (Wikimedia Commons) Mary Oliver references Rilke … more →
Link to The Story broadcast
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wrote 1 month ago: Link to The Story broadcast www.thestoryonline.org/stories/2013-04/creating-art-survive Zofia Abramo … more →
National Poetry Month
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wrote 1 month ago: Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, … more →
Zofia Grochowalska Abramowicz
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wrote 1 month ago: In 1994 I had the opportunity to travel to Poland and meet Joanna, the penpal with whom I had been c … more →
KECEWA
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wrote 1 month ago: Kecewa Susu dibalas tuba Sama rupa Tak sama rasa. … more →
“In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.” ~ Edmond Jabès, from The Book of Questions II, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop
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wrote 1 month ago: Pasea Sailing by crlbvi (FCC) “That’s what the world is, after all: an endless b … more →
