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Peace
“Peace of mind is rooted in affection and compassion.” – The 14th Dalai Lama While talking about politics to a neighbor recently (love thy neighbor!), he said, “peace is unseasonable.” Isn’t that great? As if peace itself needs no salt, needs no other preparation; it stands on its own. I asked him if I could…
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Thanks
It’s the time of year in the United States to give thanks for all we have. In my family, we still celebrate Thanksgiving the way we learned to from our parents: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and pie. Maybe a few vegetables if someone insists. But we spend less than a minute giving thanks together.…
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Walk, walk, walk
Writers live in their heads a lot. It’s part of the job, imagining revealing dialogue, location layouts, the clothes your character must wear, and why a character refuses to travel or love or die. In addition to imagining, there is calculating. How long would it take to ride a horse from an imaginary town to…
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Writers
Writers are natural questioners. But why? But how? When? Writing allows our questions to flow from our heads to our hands and rise from the page in stories. There, inside the story, we attempt to answer. We know or have an inkling of what we want our lives to be because we sit in chairs,…
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Fantasy
I recently finished writing a fantasy novel that I’d been working on for some time. A beta-reader sent some feedback and asked if this story was really a fantasy. I was puzzled at first; I thought it was obviously in the fantasy genre, about ghosts and witches, but then I realized (to my horror) that…
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Quotes
On a beach walk, I came upon a large patch of seaweed. There was no way around it, so I searched for a long stick and then pushed and pulled at the thick, wet and heavy verdant greenery to create a narrow walking path. It was difficult work and I imagined being an explorer,…
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Epiphany #49
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I haven’t really had 49 Epiphanies, I just like giving things a made up number. And you may think this post is silly, but being silly is good for you. A few days ago, I was pondering how to juggle all my tasks and chores and projects, and thinking (again) that there are not enough…
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Trespass
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I just read ‘The Trespasser’ by Tana French. It’s written so well that I stayed up way past my bed time and could not put it down. The next day, I wondered about the word “trespasser”. There were many characters in the book who might be accused of trespassing and I’m unsure which one character…
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Impossible
My sister and I were talking about all of the self-imposed tasks and projects in our lives and how it seems impossible to get them done. The word ‘impossible’ brings to mind two quotes: The first is from ‘Alice In Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll: “There’s no use trying,” she (Alice) said. “One can’t believe impossible…
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Writing
“You are kind to painters,” Van Gogh wrote to his brother, “and I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Brenda Ueland Brenda Ueland wrote, “If You Want to Write” published in 1938 but still available in book stores. She…
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Barefoot
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I always loved barnacles. The tiny white houses protect their sea dwellers with sharp spiked towers. They attach to boats and piers and rocks and shells, anything that remains in the sea long enough. When I was a kid, entire sections of the beach were covered with barnacles and you had to walk over them…
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Walking
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I take walks on the beach near our house. One day, jellyfish lay everywhere. I wonder if they missed their ride, the outgoing tide. Another day the entire beach is covered in bright green seaweed, so slippery that I need to turn back. One day brought giant logs. Did they fall off of a container…
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Support
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When I read or listen to the news, I often ask aloud, “What is wrong with people?” (Sometimes I yell this.) I don’t understand why someone would, on purpose, hurt another person? What is the benefit of it? I don’t want to give examples. See any news article for examples of how awful one or…
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Greetings
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Hello, it’s the first blog, first day, first exciting moment to share my thoughts. I’m a writer and I tend to write stories and write about the things I am thinking. What I’ve been thinking lately is how crazy the world is. When I read The Times (pick one, there are many. I subscribe to…
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