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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 12
Forty year old bulbs • every year a yellow • wonder – daffodils Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 10
when I was younger • swearing was forbidden • now it saves lives Continue reading
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 7
Some off-screen • Coincidence of sun and moon Continue reading
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The Gettysburg Address
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Continue reading
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. — John Ruskin And this: It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy … Continue reading