On Resolutions

I am “borrowing” this post from DK’s Live & Learn blog. I’ve been following his blog for well over a decade, long before he made Kurt’s list of the 25 Blogs Guaranteed To Make You Smarter.  His place on the list is well-deserved and a daily read for me. When I first read the pull quote below, I immediately connected with the idea and maybe you will too. Part of the nature of resolutions,…

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That Moment ... Live & Learn (repost)

David’s blogs are always so inspirational, always so human. The words he finds, along with the words he uses, touches the soul as well as the mind. Leaves you feeling better than when you first stopped by. Do go check him out if you have the time. https://davidkanigan.com/     that moment…  

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Light...

Light…

  Every positive thought we pass between us makes room for more light. Quote: John Lewis Image: David Kanigan

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Bad movie I have Orphan: First Kill

Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly - July 2nd 2022 - #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly – July 2nd 2022 – #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Just a small selection of posts I have enjoyed this week and I hope you will head over to enjoy in full.. thanks Sally. Debby Gies is the guest of Wendy Van Camp exploring the Epistolary writing style that addresses the reader through a diary format (think Bridget Jones’ Diary) or in journal or letter format. Very interesting. Head over to read Debby’s post: Epistolary Writing D.G. Kaye with…

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Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly - July 2nd 2022 - #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly – July 2nd 2022 – #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Just a small selection of posts I have enjoyed this week and I hope you will head over to enjoy in full.. thanks Sally. Debby Gies is the guest of Wendy Van Camp exploring the Epistolary writing style that addresses the reader through a diary format (think Bridget Jones’ Diary) or in journal or letter format. Very interesting. Head over to read Debby’s post: Epistolary Writing D.G. Kaye with…

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Morning Walk. With Chat GBT.

I am both amazed and horrified at the same time by the power of AI. I use it on a basic level every day for simple, benign tasks but I fear what unscrupulous people will do with it. Read on for a brilliant example of AI at use by my friend David Kanigan…

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Life's Better on Nantucket

Photo by David Kanigan While it’s probably true, that life’s better on Nantucket, it can’t be a permanent escape from what I’m running from. Or from what you’re running from. Most of us are running from something… Guilt. Shame. Distrust. Pain. Resentment. Bitterness. Jealousy. Hate. Death. Life. It’s all the same. Burdens of Soul are all the same because they all bear a weight that can crush…

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Days Like This

Days Like This Haiku from Writing Me Up #poetry #haiku #nature #life

Will See Me Right bright autumn sunshine warm and dry and windless day geese fly overhead Photo by David Kanigan on Pexels.com

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Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly - July 2nd 2022 - #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Smorgasbord Blogger Weekly – July 2nd 2022 – #Writing D.G. Kaye with Wendy Van Camp, #Review Olga Nunez Miret, #Stress David Kanigan, #Idioms Janet Morrison, #WIP Stevie Turner, #Personalities Cheryl Oreglia

Thanks to Sally Cronin for including my post in her blogger roundup this week. I’m in the best of companies! Check them all out!

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I lie on the floor…I sink into a sweet melancholy and rhythmic waves of words stream through me again. I write them down on brown wrapping paper and conclude sorrowfully that the poems are still not good enough. ‘Children’s poems,’ said Mr Krogh… Then one day I write something that is different from anything I’ve written before, only I don’t know what the difference is. I write the following:

There burns a candle in the night, it burns for me alone, and if I blow at it, it flames up, and flames for me alone. But if you breathe softly and if you breathe quietly, the candle is suddenly more than bright and burns deep in my own breast, for you alone.

—  Tove Ditlevsen, Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy

On Dogs, Sleep & Trains

It’s Monday morning, but feels more like late afternoon. For some reason, my brain decided it would be a good idea to take two, 2-hour naps last night with 3 hours in between.  I had a brief email exchange with David Kanigan (DK) in the middle of it all as he was up because Wally needed to go out and pee and now DK was online, liking my posts at 0322, Eastern time. I thanked him and shared my…

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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (repost)

David Kanigan Reading my Reader like a good granny this morning, I came upon David’s post, Monday Morning Wake-Up Call. These posts always “get” me in one way or another.  Today’s post gave beautiful words to those flashes of feelings we acknowledge but don’t explain — to myself or others. Not like this. I think it’s time to sit down now and then and actually explain what it is about rain or…

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A beginning and an end...

A beginning and an end…

an entry from a friend- I share in honor of David’s vision and Buechner’s life… (Live and Learn- David Kanigan)   5:10 a.m. No. I didn’t sleep in. And No, I didn’t take magnesium before bed. Or drink a cup of Tonic Water. Or eat a banana. Or take melatonin. Why? Who the Hll knows? Maybe it gives me something to btch about. I walk. It has been 837 consecutive (almost) days on this daybreak walk…

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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

© Albert Camus

David Kanigan

The hands of the shadow, 2016 - by Dara Scully (1989), Spanish

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Nobody adjusts himself or herself, unless prompted first, by some interior gurgling. But. While my mother said, “People don’t change,” what she meant is, I’d estimate: I shouldn’t try to change a person. That the effort exerted is often ineffectual and upsetting. Nobody adjusts himself or herself, unless prompted first, by some interior gurgling. Some deep mobilizing. Urgency forms in the belly. And change, I’ve come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable. The body’s clever ways for communicating shifts can make a person crazy, but also move a person toward life. ~ Durga Chew-Bose, from “At My Least and Most Aware” in Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017)

[thanks to David Kanigan]

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