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The Superbowl is behind us, and with March coming, Madness will soon keep us near the flat-screens. Shortly after that we’ll have The Opener. All American sports… football, basketball, baseball… soccer, track, volleyball. Great fun… but are sports good for life beyond the game? Can learning to play sports teach kids how to live life? [...]
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Must we always do things we’ve always done just because we’ve always done them? I used to cook. And decorate the food. When Wes and I were first married, I learned to cook on a budget because money was definitely scarce, and much of what little we both made as teachers had to be saved [...]
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We never see backstage before a performance, do we? We don’t know what competitors, speakers, musicians go through as the clock ticks toward performance time. How do they prepare those last few seconds? Kali* is a dancer — competing for almost two years in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip-hop, and acrobatics. The painting below is of [...]
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How do you begin your list of resolutions? I will… I won’t… Or some of each? Okay… it’s February already. But shouldn’t New Year’s resolutions survive at least the first month? I know I’m still thinking mine through… Last November I wrote a goal (and publicized it at 43 Things) to declutter my workroom. I [...]
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Why would anyone come to read my blog Over Coffee? Or any blog for that matter? The question was the first in my blogging class homework assignment, and it has kept me wondering for the past two weeks. Why indeed? Why read my blog? For the same reasons I read those similar to mine, I [...]
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It smells like the beginning of fall — you know, that smell of half-summer, half fall. Oh, I can’t explain it… but it’s nice. It smells like something new is coming… So said my twenty-year-old granddaughter Lyssa, as she opened the door to the morning on the way to her college classes for the day. [...]
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As a little girl, a favorite chore of mine was erasing and washing the chalkboards at the end of each school week. With a big bucket of cold water and a fat sponge, I could wash away all the math problems, diagrammed sentences, drawn-out music scores, lists of spelling words… On Fridays the green slate [...]
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Do My Words Paint Pictures People Can Relate To? Can Connect With?
by Barbara Hartsook on March 11, 2009 · 11 comments
in Blogging,Conversation Over Coffee
How Does Someone Connect With What I Say? Or Write? Or Paint? I’m learning how to use less detail in areas of my portraits outside a small focal area. I’m learning to look at things straight-on and, while not moving my eyes, think about how I see the periphery. Certainly it’s not detailed. Important to [...]
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