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Solstice haiku

Finally the days are growing longer again inching to summer. Tagged: haiku, poetry, postaday2011, solstice

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bad memory

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) I laughed when I read this.  I can report that it is completely...

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slow

What I’ve learned about the publishing industry: It’s slow. Everything about it moves like a comatose tortoise. True, like the tortoise, sure and steady gets there eventually, but it can be...

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day

It’s a day Just a day. The sun rises. Fog clears to clouds Or the sky is blue. Snow falls on empty streets. Stores are dark. When you meet someone, they nod and say, Merry Christmas. You smile and...

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Mnemosyne & Ben

Here is a snippet of ‘something yet to be.’ I think it will end up in Grace Awakening Myth, but it will tell me for certain in its own time. The author has very little say in these matters.  Characters...

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truth and memory

One of the values of learning another language, is the enlightenment it provides to your own language.  I have links to an article about this in a previous blog post. While I’ve been working with...

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Trembling

Today’s offering, a musical interlude by my harp friend and teacher Sharlene Wallace of Toronto. Enjoy! . Tagged: harp, postaday2011, rhyme and the river, sharlene wallace, trembling angels

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allusion

In Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones comments to her diary, “Wonder what Mark Darcy would be like as a father. Father to his children I mean, not to me. That would be  a weird Oedipus-like thought.” Ha.  I...

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library ghosts

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing.  Any library is filled with them.  I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead,...

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new year invocation

A new year is a time for new beginnings, as well as a time to reflect on the past.  It is a chance for us to celebrate our successes, and plan to have a wonderful year.  As 2012 dawns, let us consider...

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