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Poetry Challenge #73-Contrapuntality of Life

I love music, love singing, love listening—am lousy at playing music. Yes, I’ve tried. I took piano lessons from 13-17 and f...

Poetry Challenge #74-I Am From . . .

A few years back, we shared a prompt inspired by the I Am From Project, celebrating our unique voices through poetry (my summation of the project, not the official word.). The project’s goal was “to create a national river of voices, reminding America that diversity is our origin and our strength.” I Am From Project invited us—all of us—to share our stories and rejoice in the experiences—different and the same—that make us, U.S.

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Poetry Challenge #72.5-Flip-Flop

Are you, by chance, wearing flip flops?

If you aren’t, you should be.

Why? Because the Wednesday after Memorial Day Weekend is officially National Flip-Flop day.

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Poetry Challenge #71-Listing Up!

Find this list and more on Growing in the Garden website.

Spring is in full swing. Which for me means the frantic ...

Totally Cool

Cool to be Busy or Hip to be Boring?

Yesterday morning, on hold with a ticketing agent, while reading email and checking Instagram, this article entitled, Cool to be Busy, popped up. I didn’t have time to read more than the headline just then—the operator clicked on—had too much going on to get back to it, later, so I never learned where the article went.  But, maybe I didn’t need to know . . .

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Poetry Challenge #70-Noises On!

For the last poetry challenge we explored the Sound of Silence, this time, let’s crank up the volume by focusing on noise. 

City Noises…

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Poetry Challenge #69-The Sound of Silence

I’m writing this in the wee small hours of the morning, when, as David Mann wrote, “the whole wide world is fast asleep (sing it Frank).

Schools and businesses are closed. There’s no traffic. The world is silent.

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Fin Pal asks Norman how to overcome Stage Fright

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Poetry Challenge #68-Cup of Kindness

Nanny, my grandmother (born July 6, 1906), and her girlfriends gave each other tea or coffee cups as gifts. None of them had pockets deep enough to buy a whole set of china at one time. Nor did their ilk register for wedding gifts.

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Poetry Challenge #67-Color Your World

Spring is coming to our village…finally! Colorful blossoms are popping up all around. An especially welcome site against the backdrop of winter’s leftover grey.

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