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Lunch Break Cats - I snapped a couple of cat pics while I was cooking my lunch. 200/365 – The current photo a day17 hours ago
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How & Why To Become a Wonder-Seeker - Like most of us I find it easy to agree that seeking awe and wonder on a regular basis seems like a good way to live. We’ve all seen the magic tha...17 hours ago
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Crisis actors - a parliament of ice paying the dead to go away in the news is a place made out of thought23 hours ago
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How to Let Go of the Past and Forgive - *“Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie* As a child, I faced constant physical and...1 day ago
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What I’D Rather not think about by Jente Posthuma - What I’d rather not think about by Jente Posthuma Dutch fiction Original title Wear Ik Liver aniet aan denk Translator Sarah Timmer Harvey Source – Jente ...2 days ago
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh - "It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being,...3 days ago
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Nordic Visions is part of 2024 World SF book bundle - Chuffed to see that the lovely editor Lavie Tidhar has chosen the anthology Nordic Visions for the 2024 World SF … Continue reading →4 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 14 March 2024 Edition - [image: _DSC0054] A view of a sculpture at a place called "Top of the Rock" near Branson, Missouri. Taken while on a spring break trip a few years ago. Welc...4 days ago
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Wild Bird Wednesday 607 - Zebra Dove. - WBW is brought to you this week by a more conventionally coloured pigeon type bird than last week's bird! This is a Zebra Dove (*Geopelia striata*) and i...6 days ago
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The Gray-Winged Pigeons of the Shrine - The woman vomited, leaving white and orange spots on the mosaic floor. Kneeling, she continued to throw up, her dyed hair sticking to her forehead, her f...6 days ago
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Welcome to Tulips for Breakfast - Welcome to Tulips for Breakfast! Here you will find all posts from Haiku for Parkinson’s, Haibun, Exercising Mind and Body, Table Tennis for Parkinson’s, P...1 week ago
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A Sunday Afternoon Cooking Spree - For most of my cooking life, I've not really been one to meal prep, preferring to cook a meal most evenings. Lately, though, evening activities and schedul...2 weeks ago
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Book of the month: Jia Pingwa - Book publicists are a curious breed. Although I rarely accept proofs and buy almost all the books I feature on this blog, I frequently receive emails from ...2 weeks ago
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Visible Mending and the Scrap Man - As a child I learned much about life, academically and practically at school but mostly at home. The methods used to expound that knowledge was not always ...3 weeks ago
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Someone You Can Build A Nest In launches on April 2nd! - My debut novel is extremely nigh! It releases across the world on April 2nd. In this post, I'll walk you through everything you need to know. Let's start...3 weeks 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...4 weeks ago
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An heiress and mainly manly men, with horses: Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1967) - Flambards by K.M. Peyton ~ 1967. This edition: Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 227 pages. This will be a sketchy sort of review. This novel is so...4 weeks ago
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FREE SHIPPING - If you prefer to read paperbacks, Blurb books have just announced FREE SHIPPING on all books.https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDavies?profile_preview=tru...5 weeks ago
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sonnets and cake - I don't hop on my personal Twitter accounts regularly anymore ( professionally ScienceTwitter is still a thing, but the students are more visible on Instagr...1 month ago
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poetic pairings - I will be pairing up with Onjana Yawnghwe in this event of collaboration and connection between two poets. You are cordially invited. Featured Poets: Mary...2 months 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 months ago
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God jul 🥰 - Surprising the only man I ever loved tomorrow 🥰 He adores knitted socks. So I took a class and now I can keep him in knitted socks the rest of his life ...2 months 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...6 months 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...7 months 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, ...8 months ago
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This feed has moved and will be deleted soon. Please update your subscription now. - The publisher is using a new address for their RSS feed. Please update your feed reader to use this new URL: *http://girlxoxo.com/feed*10 months ago
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Phnom Penh and the Train to Nowhere - Trying, and failing, to take the train from Phnom Penh to Battambang Cambodia. How we spent 24 hours in Phnom Penh.10 months ago
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On Writing In the Moment, for the Moment: Episode 4—The Meditative Essay - When it comes to written meditations, I love this one, "Somewhere a Siren," by Robert Vivian—available for your reading pleasure at the one and only *Gue...11 months 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...1 year ago
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The Sequence Dance - *The Sequence Dance*. Releasing April 18th 2023 40 short Fictions. Print. Available for preorder: ISBN: 978-1-956692-13-6 Published by Unsolicited Pre...1 year 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!...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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The Kekulé Problem - Cormac McCarthy asks an interesting question here, and gives the wrong answer, also interestingly. Along the way he manages to describe in simple language ...1 year ago
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The moat of self-sufficiency - “Most of the ‘mine’ families lived only a few miles out from the town, but their self-sufficiency surrounded them like a moat. Their offspring could go fro...1 year ago
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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.com1 year 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...1 year 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...2 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 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...2 years 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...2 years 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. ...3 years 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...3 years 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!3 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...3 years 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...3 years 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...3 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 ...3 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...3 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...4 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.4 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...6 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...6 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 sto...6 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...6 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’6 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...6 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...6 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 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-- * *...8 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...9 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.” ...9 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 ...9 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...9 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...10 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...10 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 ~10 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...10 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 ...10 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...10 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.10 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...10 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...10 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, ...10 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...10 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...11 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. ...11 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...11 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...11 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 →11 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...11 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...11 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’...11 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...12 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...12 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...12 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...12 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 ...12 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...13 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...13 years ago
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Lens-Artists Challenge #291 – Cityscapes - “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” Winston Churchill Interestingly, this week Patti has challenged us to share some cityscapes. Coincident...2 days ago
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A million and one updates - Dear reader- I have not posted on this blog in a bloggy way in a long time. That’s because I’ve been writing weekly for my newsletter here– you should defi...1 week ago
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Upcoming Events & Recent Press - Guess what! I’m talking about hiking soon 🙂 Just kidding, I talk about hiking ALL THE TIME as hilariously captured in this meme: In addition to my twice-a...2 weeks ago
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On Writing In the Moment, for the Moment: Episode 4—The Meditative Essay - When it comes to written meditations, I love this one, "Somewhere a Siren," by Robert Vivian—available for your reading pleasure at the one and only *Gue...11 months 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...6 years ago
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