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Why do we doodle? Just to pass the time? To find a design? To examine patterns? If I have a pen in hand and paper near by, I’m going to doodle. My name, a curved line, what’s being said by someone else — and that may also be in a curved line — or sometimes [...]
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Roses say romance… but does the romance outlast the rose? Once upon a time, eighteen years or so ago, a young man won his love’s heart with a rose every Friday. Oh, it wasn’t always a rose. Sometimes it was a dozen roses, sometimes a teddy bear. But always a gift, and always on Friday. [...]
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Can we heal emotional hurts by reading and relating to fictional stories? I think so… At Every Day Thoughts from Life readers were invited to look at and give critique to the beginning of a short story called Death of the Heart, written by Sal Vilardo. As the story opens, a young man named Micca [...]
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There’s a new Blog Carnival coming… If I’d only known then what I know now, I’d………………… I’ve heard it so often. Read it. Said it myself. Would I really live a piece of my life differently, given another chance? Knowing then what I know now? What do I know now that I didn’t know then? [...]
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I love to write and doodle. So why don’t I do more of it? What am I afraid of? And how do I stop the fears and get going again? 1. Fear of Failure… Maybe my written thoughts won’t have significance to you, the reader. Do you even wonder the same things I wonder? Or [...]
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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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Etched onto two large wooden tiles and mounted on an even larger fireplace at a Craftsman Inn somewhere in upstate New York is this writing: “The Lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” My husband and I had spent the night at this Inn one crisp fall weekend, and since I like my [...]
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My friend The Purple Owl says: Getting creative ideas is not something you do. It’s something you allow to happen. My best ideas for solutions often come with time; they rarely present themselves immediately. For instance, in Chris Price’s Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week’s assignment this fall was to paint [...]
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Seems like August never happened. I know it must have — I had a birthday. At the end of July I collected a blue ribbon and my paintings that didn’t sell from one art show, and hustled them to another town a few miles east of me for a month-long exhibit. In September I moved [...]
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