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End Of June

Posted in 13 Moons, Authors, Bones, Culture, Holding My Breath, Life, Maps, Nature, Personal, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Travel, Vision, Wake Up, tagged , , , , , , , on June 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »

It’s the end of June. ybonesy and I will be traveling over the next two weeks. Different times and separate destinations. Expect slight delays, possible blasts of summer rain, seeds of a sunset poppy, the beat of a gyrfalcon.
Tonight I feel like poetry. Away from home, there is ground in the simple. A blinding light [...]

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Truth As You Understand It

Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Jugular, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Practice, Quotes, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on June 29, 2007 | 15 Comments »

-Just Sitting, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.

I’ve been in a daze since I got back from the trip. Tired, unfocused, full. Obsessed with flashes of detail, and snippets of conversation. I’m getting closer to laying down my stories.
I want to write memoir. And [...]

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Fuel Our Blog. Thanks.

Posted in Gratitude, Maps, Vision on June 28, 2007 | 16 Comments »

Hey, for the past day-and-a-half, red Ravine has been featured as “Blog of the Day” on FuelMyBlog, a fairly new directory of blogs.
FuelMyBlog is one of our favorite blogging social sites, and not just because they gave us some free press. The blogs registered there are from all over the world, many newcomers to the blogosphere. So far, [...]

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PRACTICE: 10 More Gesture Writings

Posted in 25 Things, Culture, Family, Place, Practice, Random, Structure, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Work, Writers, Writing Practices on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A black Lucent telephone
with three lines.
It sits mute on the desk.
No one ever calls anymore.
They send IMs instead.

A color photograph
14 by 10
of 20 or so people in China
the Chinese all wearing black rain coats and with black straight hair
the U.S. people are squinting in the sun
gray, blond, bald, brown heads
thinking, Look at me now.

There’s a [...]

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PRACTICE – 10 Gesture Writings

Posted in 25 Things, Culture, Practice, Recall, Structure, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

WIND
roar, still, ebb, flow
herbicide, hamburger
swaying limbs, pine needles
swift, clouds
exhaust, chemical lawns
i wish i was a mountain

LOAFER
cracked leather, brass penny
gray stitches & socks
worn sole, aged & ancient
keds, flat-footed
rolling rubber, unfettered, grounded

BUTTERFLY
spots like eyes, no eyelashes
knobby ears, no ears
sticky mouth, no mouth
nibbling on a daisy, no tongue
understanding me, the moment, the afterglow
in flight, landed, no feet

HUBCAP
ram, dodge, [...]

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Why Writers Don’t Write About Sex

Posted in Art, Authors, Body, Books, Culture, Jugular, Life, Personal, Poetry, Politics, Secrets, Sex, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2007 | 37 Comments »

Curve, 1993, woodcut, from private art collection of student work, artist unknown, photo alteration © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.

While perusing the health and vigor of our categories last night, I had a realization: writers rarely write about sex. Our Sex category has a measly 5 posts, which leads me to wonder, why bother [...]

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Got Your Back

Posted in Authors, Body, Bones, Culture, Family, Holding My Breath, Home, Photography, Place, Practice, Random, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Wake Up, Work, Writing on June 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »

-Got Your Back, Taos, New Mexico, April 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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PRACTICE: I Find Beauty In – 10min

Posted in Culture, Family, Personal, Practice, Random, Recall, Structure, Writing Practices, tagged , , on June 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »

I find beauty in red, deep red the color almost of blood, blood running and deep inside, but dry blood, that turns light as if the oxygen has infused light. I find beauty in wide faces, clear skin, open expressions, the smile of my daughter. How she hasn’t yet grown in incisors and how when [...]

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Word Of The Day: Excavate

Posted in Authors, Culture, Food, Politics, Quotes, Random, Structure, Word Of The Day, Writers, Writing on June 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »

The responsibility of the writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
                                                                 ~James A. Baldwin
From A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni (1973).
You can see more excerpts from their conversation in this post, and you can see other quotes from Baldwin here and here.

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Through The Window

Posted in Art, Authors, Family, Great Places To Write, Home, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Random, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Wake Up, Writing, tagged , on June 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »

-Inside, Outside, view from Ansel Adams room, April 2007, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

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Holding My Bated Breath

Posted in Culture, Holding My Breath, Laughing, Random, Structure, Word Of The Day, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I noticed that one of the last comments in The Devil Came Down To Austin contained the phrase waiting with bated breath. It struck me as poetic Old English and I wanted to find out more.
The Word Detective has this to say about bated breath:
The word “bated” is an aphetic, or clipped, form of the [...]

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El Agua Es La Vida

Posted in Art, Books, Culture, Death, Doodling, Dreams, Love, Money, Place, Spirituality, Topic Writing on June 23, 2007 | 11 Comments »

-Reflection of La Llorona, ink and watercolor © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.

-From Topic post, Water Wings.

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The Devil Came Down To Austin

Posted in Bones, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Family, Jugular, Life, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Place, Politics, Relationships, Structure, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2007 | 33 Comments »

By Carolyn Flynn

I keep telling my father to go away. But here he is in Austin, Texas, on the sign at the construction site one block from my hotel. FLYNN it says in all caps, Flynn Construction, and it’s red, white and blue like the logo for my father’s home building company. Just like it, [...]

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15 Hours, 36 Minutes Of Light

Posted in Body, Bones, Family, Nature, Photography, Place, Random, Travel, Wake Up, Weather, Writing on June 21, 2007 | 12 Comments »

 
-Tickseed After The Storm, June 20th, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.

Summer Solstice is tomorrow. At 8 p.m. tonight, the sky bled tornado green and hail the size of baseballs splattered windshields 12 miles south of our cottage on the hill. I walked around the yard with a navy windbreaker over my Canon, [...]

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