Category: art
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Rain
Setting out for evening walk,dusk came early.Think it’s going to rain. “Nah, it’s only spitting.It’ll be ok.We’ll go anyway.” Wind gusts tear through the oaks.Fretting, churning, breakinglike great beach waves. “Ohwell,it’s not too bad,Hope it doesn’t get worse.” Cold streaking drops increase.Dense grey haze of wet air,between dark twisting trees. “This is bad,It’s too windy!Hood…
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On writing
Why do you write? I write because I read,and follow the ways.A script conveysso much over time and space. Mostly I take notesto help me rememberthings I’m learning,and lists to forget. (Stuff to do and getwhen consigned to a listclears thoughts stuckin recurring loops.) Recipes to followwhen I cook new foodsand keep in a collection.if…
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Joy
What brings you joy in life? It is a great gift and a mystery and one to be ready for. It can take you by surprise,be invoked by the smallest things. Then recalling the pleasure of it can last a lifetime. To experience joy makes life worth living, indeed seems like it is what it’s…
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Treasure
Somewhere in or around the small Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær lies buried a large hoard of silver coinage… treasure! Egill Skallagrímsson, was the anti-hero of a millennium old saga, and, as the story goes, an Icelandic berserker, sorcerer and poet who waged a blood-feud lasting many years against Viking King Eiríkr Bloodaxe and his Queen (Mother of Kings) Gunnhildr. On retiring he…
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Memory
My earliest memory is of sunlight and blueness under a kitchen table. The bright white light was transformed as it streamed in through a high window and gathered a blue haze about itself from cupboards and floor. I felt this small domain to be a calm and soothing place and my friend, a large black…
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