Getting (Productively) Messy with Maggie Nelson. . .

Despite all the other tasks calling to me from/for this blog, most of them pleasurably if time-consuming, I’m going to take a few minutes to transcribe a paragraph from Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Nelson’s…

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Poetry Experiment Continued — With Apologies for Lab Failure by Management,

Just a quick NewsFlash! to say I’m still here, and now, so are your comments (back on this post) to which I hope to respond very soon. A bit of technical background first. I have…

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Sunday Sorting, with Showers. . .

 If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve already seen the photo above, so please pardon the repetition — I’ve added a couple here, though, that I won’t be posting there. The clever street murals recently…

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Word-Less Wednesday, What I Wore

 I’m hoarding many of my words to myself at the moment, writing them in the three handwritten “morning pages” Julia Cameron recommends in her book The Artist’s Way. I’m not managing to do these daily,…

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Calling All Gardeners. . . Do You Know This Pretty?

On Instagram the other day, I posted this close-up and another photo of the entire shrub it grows on. As I said in that post, I came home and researched this gloriously fragrant shrub whose…

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