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Not my loss

January 13, 2014

Misunderstandings are a part of life anywhere. Though living together as a family in spite of the many differences between …

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The bride in red

January 12, 2014

the bride in red brazenly scrutinized by a thousand appraising eyes for her worth, measured in gold faithfully displayed as …

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Foto Friday 70: The flight

January 10, 2014

This is what the shy birds do when they see the Shutterbug Lady getting too close for comfort πŸ˜‰

The wayward gray cells

January 9, 2014

There is something about standing under a shower and having a cleaner and fresher you emerge from the grubby version …

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Some thoughts on a lost dream

January 8, 2014

Most evenings I can hear the musical tinkling of the chilanka from the house across the lane, as the Β two …

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When my fingers tap dance on the computer keyboard the results are either some tongue in cheek humor, a verse, a short story, a rant or sometimes mere rambling prose that goes nowhere in particular.... You'll find them all. So go ahead, take your pick and be bored to death!!

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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” ~ Cyril Connolly

The why

β€œI write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan Didion

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Politics, things that make you think, and recreational breaks

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"How quickly comes the sun when first it sets its mind to rise." - - j. s. v.

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a 100-word story every day

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β€œIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ernest Hemingway

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