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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.James Boswell I love this image the hard dense brick of soup-add hot water-and then a full steaming bowl of Continue reading A Cake of portable soup
Late blooming flowers extend the summer. “In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thoughtand care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we Continue reading 31 Reasons I Love October-Day 3
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.Walter Scott I’m reading a book on memoir Continue reading Keeping a Journal, a Diary, a Blog
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I am graceful Originally uploaded by cocoaberg25Positive affirmation and delicious local food in Montpelier, Vermont. All of their buckwheat crepes are named with positive affirmations choose from I am happy, I am fulfilled, I am beautiful, I am graceful, I Continue reading I am graceful
“It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time”Barbara Kingsolver Since I’m working on journaling this semester I’ve been getting up the last two days and writing journal entries, similar to Julia Cameron’s morning pages. Continue reading Excavating Memories
“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”Henry David Thoreau There is nothing as wonderful as coming home…my garden has exploded with cosmos, mums, dahlias and scabiosa not ready to turn Continue reading Coming Home
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s make-up, the things Continue reading Where Do You Want to Go?