Category Archives: note to self

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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For the quote box

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

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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2022

Hey now, I did try to sort out some small brown birds at the feeder, some stripey and some not. I did my Welsh lesson. I started to clean out a palette. I listened to Billy Collins. You know, I … Continue reading

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Day 25 NaPoWriMo 2022

Guess what I did today. Tell me what you see and now? now is just a guess too small, far away. look straight ahead now now right, left, up, and now down now the other side. in a darkened room … Continue reading

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Day 11 NaPoWriMo 2022

Well what can I say? I have been longing for Kasha Varnishkes and Mom probably thought – why is she making SO MUCH? But I have no problem. Well maybe a problem, but not with eating it. kasha varnishkes for … Continue reading

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