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August 29, 2014
FRIDAY HOUSEKEEPING! Dear Ones – We get a lot of new people joining this Faceb…
FRIDAY HOUSEKEEPING!
Dear Ones –
We get a lot of new people joining this Facebook page every day (thank you for joining our little community, new folks!) so once a week, I try to give everyone all the information they might want, about other places on the Internet to find me.
So let’s run down the list:
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in a sweet Illinois garden! :)
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in a sweet Illinois garden! 
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From Illinois…my happy place, sitting inside my screenhouse watching the birds & bees in my Eden…and soaking up SOAT & the last bits of summer
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Frankfurt! Thank you, Lindsay. :)
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Frankfurt! Thank you, Lindsay.
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Just catching up on some travel blogging and a much anticipated read during a 10 hour layover in Frankfurt! Loving it so far!
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August 28, 2014
Since today seems to be a horse-themed day on this page, I thought I should shar…
Since today seems to be a horse-themed day on this page, I thought I should share THIS bit of wonderfulness — which came to me through a reader named Missy.
I love it — thanks, Missy!
Maybe untie yourself from the chair today, friends…
ONWARD,
LG
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#TBT Throwback Thursday: Here is me in Wyoming, 1992. I was working on a ranch…
#TBT
Throwback Thursday: Here is me in Wyoming, 1992.
I was working on a ranch called Allen's Diamond Four, in the Wind River Range of the Wyoming Rockies (a spectacular place which you should really visit: http://bit.ly/1tG0ri7)
I was 23, and while I can't say that I really had any business being there, I was there. I was there because I was collecting stories. I had decided after college that my task was to go out in the world and have as many diverse experiences as I could possibly cobble together. I had been told, as an aspiring writer, to "write what you know" — but all I knew was that I didn't know anything yet. So I went out there to learn stuff, to see stuff, to hear stuff, to find stuff out all that I could about the world.
My strategy was this: I would work at this diner in Philadelphia for a few months at a time, taking every shift and saving all my money…then, when I got some money together, I would head out on a new adventure.
A road trip across the West had taken me circuitously to this ranch in Wyoming, and I managed to get a job there as a trail cook (!). I worked at the ranch for two seasons. I made $300 a month in one of the hardest but most exciting jobs I've ever had. And, even more importantly, I wrote down every single thing that happened to me and around me.
Those experiences became the basis for a short story called "PILGRIMS", which ended up being the first piece of writing I ever had published. In other words: IT WORKED.
All of which is to say — while it may not look like it from this photo, if you look closely, you will see that what I am actually doing in this picture is attending an elite private graduate school for creative writing.
ONWARD,
LG
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This one is REALLY cool! Alma has been reunited in Sweden with the greatest taxo…
This one is REALLY cool! Alma has been reunited in Sweden with the greatest taxonomist of all time: Carl von Linné (known to Alma — and mentioned in THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS — as Linnaeus.) Thank you, Claudia!
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Dear Liz,
I just had to — Alma, please meet Carl von Linné.
Warmest greetings from Humlegården in Stockholm.
Claudia — at Humlegården.
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This is AMAZING! Laura had the words “Devo farmi le ossa” tattooed on her arm fo…
This is AMAZING! Laura had the words "Devo farmi le ossa" tattooed on her arm for her 37th birthday. This is an Italian phrase, meaning, "I need to build my bones" — which is to say: Time to toughen up, to grow up, to stand up. Happy birthday, Laura! Now go be a bad-ass…
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"Devo farmi le ossa." Have had these words swirlin' around in the back of my mind since I first read EPL in 2007. For my 37th birthday last weekend, I did this.
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Belgium…lovely photos!
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Belgium…lovely photos!
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Beautiful book with gorgeous cover! I'm reading it as slowly as possible to let it last longer ???? Felt inspired to make the following pictures. Greetings and love from Antwerp, Belgium ????
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August 27, 2014
Oh, hello mossy rock of love!
Oh, hello mossy rock of love!
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What is it about the last week of summer that brings such an ache to hold on to…
What is it about the last week of summer that brings such an ache to hold on to it all — the warmth, the sun, the air, the water, the languid pace.
Oh, summer! Oh, fleeting time!
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