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August 10 - August 26, 2024
Her soul suddenly escaped from the bondage of Aunt Elizabeth's stuffy feather-bed and gloomy canopy and sealed windows.
She was out in the open with the Wind Woman and the other gipsies of the night—the fireflies, the moths, the brooks, the clouds.
she coasted the shore...
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Simile metaphor nice
lur...
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Tears of the grape, the death sweat of the Cluster, the last sigh
Of the mild youth who listens to the luring songs of Luvah.
~ Wm. Blake
http://penn.betatesters.com/blake2.htm
crowded was it with new and generally delightful impressions.
Wow. Where did she get *that* image". Question
a house which aforetime had had vivid brides and mothers and wives, and the atmosphere of their loves and lives still hung around it, not yet banished by the old-maidishness of the regime of Elizabeth and Laura.
Why did they never marry? Question
Aunt Laura
Haha
Haha. Plenty of other barns in Belle Water
Aunt Elizabeth,
Haha - always tell the truth, but don’t always be telling it.
She felt that she had offended Aunt Elizabeth, and she hadn't the least notion why or how.
Haha - Elizabeth can’t handle the truth! always tell the truth, but don’t always be telling it. (Elizabeth Pendleton Hackney)
columbines
https://theforestfairy.com/flowers-that-attract-and-welcome-the-fairies-into-your-garden/
blue-eyed ivy
wild-briar roses
lovable red road looped lightly
lovely alliteration
Cousin Jimmy
the dairy behind the cook-house.
Such a delightful spot she had never see...
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Simile
Emily thought skimming was a lovely occupation and longed to try her hand at it.
she could write it in her head.
Haha Mee too - at work, and while reading or thinking about what I’m reading.
Wind Woman
Blair Water—an
a charming land of green shadows, and blue waters.
Haha smart kid.
house where there would be nice chairs and cosy fires and bookcases and lovely, fat, purry cats and unexpected corners;
the Disappointed House,
Fairyland—along
a wild, dear, little path with lady-ferns beckoning and blowing along it,
elfin Jun...
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little whims of loveliness at ...
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everywhere the frolic of elfin lights and shadows.
great sheets of moss under the trees were meet for Titania's couch.
"This is one of the places where dreams grow,"
Cousin Jimmy
Lofty John's bush?"
Mike Sullivan.
Haha
pretty near as good as new.
Poets are so scarce in Blair Water folks don't understand them,
most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry."
Oh dear. HORRIBLE.
Met a tramp on the road—a poor, forlorn creature without a cent. I gave him the money. Why not? I had a good home and a steady job and clothes enough to do me for years.
Right out of George MacDonald
The garden was a beautiful place,
gloried over with purple.
conchs,
conchs
