Thursday, January 15, 2009
prompt: Permanence
As a child I expected a certain permanence in certain features of the world. Some part of me still does. I have not divined why I get stuck on this issue--but I can remember being shocked, at age 8 or 9 by such things as the Congo changing its name to Zaire. I thought the names of countries were...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Prompt: In the Time of Plague
In the mid-1300s, over a period of about 5 years, the Great Pestilence, the Black Plague swept across Europe from Asia to Ireland, from the Arctic to North Africa, wiping out two thirds of the population, emptying whole towns and reducing the productive countryside to a world of bleak abandonment. I...
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Friday, January 9, 2009
reprising some poems
It is my intent to attach these poems to some of my photos, and create my next show of such things. I don't have a shot for this, yet, but am thinking of some archaic architecture that might stand in for Troy. The poem itself was written after seeing the relatively recent movie TROY. ASHES IN THE...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Responding to Wigopa's prompt...
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/wigopa/ Wings From the solid safety of the wall of stone I cast myself against the sky into obscuring clouds, the dangers that they hold unknown and unforeseen... I test my fragile pinions in the turbulent airs... I dare the distance between the sky and...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
prompts: 'Tis the season...
How is it in your world? Are you ready and content to remain at home for the next couple of days? What will you be doing if the power fails? What do you most look forward to in the holiday season? Who will you be sharing it with? What makes the perfect Christmas? What is your heart's desire in this...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
a prompt of lights!
Lights glimmer and glow among the branches and reflect in every shining glass ball... What does this bright pageant evoke for you? Write a poem or tell a story, or create your own picture and post it in your blog. Then bring a link and post it in 'comments' here-- That's how this game works!
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A new Prompt: something to think about, then to write about...
It looks like the holiday season will have a different air about it this year, perhaps one more wholesome and personal than in recent years. People will not be spending as much money, will not even be begging as much credit, will not be commercializing the holidays quite so much. Personally, I think...
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Friday, November 7, 2008
BWC post 100 THE HERETICS Old acquaintances
ch 22 Spider (cont) "Only Brother Donal I am now, Brother Turlough… There is a new Prior, for our Abbot wished me to make this pilgrimage." He looked me up and down. And he raised an eyebrow when his gaze struck the sword at my back. I noticed they were newly tonsured, and in the Roman fashion....
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BWC post 99 THE HERETICS The Tavern and surprises
ch 22 Spider (cont) Gian, however damaged he had been, scraped together his health quickly enough now. Every day he regained the brute vitality I’d first seen in him, though his Light and his eyes spoke to me a somewhat altered tale. Perhaps he had been motivated from the first by affection, even...
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BWC post 98 THE HERETICS Turlough and Gian
ch 22 Spider (cont) It was not wisdom, perhaps, to stay where we were, but neither of us had the strength to go anywhere else. We did what we could. Behind the ruin of the cottage, a root cellar had been dug into the hill and lined with stone, and it still had a strong plank door. Between Gian’s...
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