Somewhere between Santa Fe and Albuquerque (one), on the RailRunner Express, December 30, 2009, iPhone photos © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. 2009: re-flec-tion –noun 1. the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. 2. an image; representation; counterpart. 3. a fixing of the [...]
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WRITING TOPIC — REFLECTION & INTENTION
Posted in Bones, Dreams, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holidays, Life, Photography, Structure, Vehicles, Vision, Wake Up, Word Of The Day, Writing Topics, tagged Happy New Year!, hopes for the New Year, intentions, reflecting on the past, reflection, setting intentions, ways to start the New Year, year end on December 31, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Buddha In A Coffee Shop
Posted in Personal, Life, Spirituality, Art, Photography, Love, Food, Family, Nature, Structure, Culture, Place, Seasons, Holidays, Animals & Critters, Home, Gratitude, Bones, 25 Things, Doodling, Things That Fly, Wake Up, Fotoblog, tagged downtime, sandhill cranes, gifts, cranes, food and culture, post Christmas, journals, setting intentions, the power of intention, images of cranes, slowing down, the space between, tamales, Christmas traditions, Christmas gifts, relaxing, New Mexico tamales, putting chile in tamale masa, Sharpies, Caribbean color Sharpies, doodle journals, Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, Don't make assumptions, odds and ends on December 29, 2009 | 12 Comments »
New pages, testing out my new doodle journal, Christmas gift to myself, December 26, 2009, images © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Today is all mine. It’s almost two and still I’m dressed in my light blue, light flannel pajamas. They’re old-fashioned, the kind of button-down-top and pants that Ricky [...]
May Your Days Be Filled With Heart, Wonder(Woman), & Stained Glass Mandalas
Posted in Culture, Death, Family, Gratitude, Holidays, Home, Laughing, Life, Love, Mandalas, Nature, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged benefits of organ donors, Christmas gifts, coloring as practice, Coloring Mandalas, gifts, gifts that keep on giving, giving back, global community, gratitude for community, Heart Mountain, heart to heart, home & hearth, organ donors, Run for Congo Women, sponsor a woman today, stained glass mandalas, superheroes, the gift of life, the most meaningful gifts, the space between, tithing, What's the best gift you've ever received?, Wheel of Life, Women For Women International, Wonder Woman on December 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Heart, Wonder(Woman), & Stained Glass Mandalas, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved It’s that awkward time between end-of-December Holidays and the New Year. And 2009 was a hard year for many. I personally know people who were (and are) unemployed, those who have lost much of [...]
A Christmas Gift From Dad
Posted in Essay, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Holidays, Life, Love, Personal, Relationships, tagged Albuquerque, Christmas gifts, family legacies, family memories, family traditions, fathers and daughters, food memories, Lita Sandoval, memories in food & cooking, passing down family recipes, recipes, red Ravine Guests, Tequila Shrimp, the most meaningful gifts, writing about fathers on December 22, 2009 | 26 Comments »
By Lita Sandoval Let’s just say that 2009 has not been my best year. I was laid off from my job in January. I accepted a position for another job soon after I was laid off and it turned out to be a terrible situation. I quit within three months. To add to the stress [...]
“K” Is For Kramarczuk’s
Posted in Art, Culture, Dreams, Food, Fotoblog, Holidays, Photography, Place, Seasons, Work, tagged alphabets, BlackBerry shots, Borscht, cell phone photography, Kramarczuk's Deli, Kramarczuk's Sausage Co., landmarks, Minneapolis at night, Minneapolis landmarks, mouthwatering restaurants, neighborhood delis, Nightshots, Nordeast, Northeast, Northeast Minneapolis, Polish Sausage, restaurants, SauerKraut Dish, shadows & light, signs, stick-to-your-ribs food, the practice of photography, Ukrainian food, Ukrainian Meatballs, Varenyky dumplings, vintage signs, winter in Minnesota, Winter Solstice on December 19, 2009 | 18 Comments »
“K” Is For Kramarczuk’s, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. We stopped at Kramarczuk’s Deli last week to take a few photographs after Christmas shopping. Wasyl Kramarczuk and his wife Anna traveled from the Ukraine to the United States in the 1940′s carrying hope and a [...]
False Accusation
Posted in Family, Jugular, Memoir, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 3 questions, Anna Deavere Smith, excavating memories, false accusations, fathers and daughters, Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do?, interview questions, lack of trust, red Ravine Guests, trust, truth, writing in community on December 11, 2009 | 14 Comments »
By Anonymous My stomach still tenses and my palms still sweat when I recall, and relive, a time I was mistakenly accused of something I didn’t do. Forty years have yet to erase the fear and confusion I felt the night my father woke me from my sleep while hurtling accusations and threats at me. [...]
voyeur haiku
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Doodling, Haiku, Nature, Practice, Skies, Things That Fly, Writing, tagged drawing, owl drawing, owls, pen and ink drawing, the practice of doodling on December 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
owl, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. owl on a high branch spies the woman in her room writing late at night -Related to post haiku 2 (one-a-day)
PRACTICE — Have You Ever Been Accused Of Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min
Posted in Culture, I Don't Remember, Laughing, Life, Personal, Practice, Secrets, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged childhood memories, excavating memories, false accusations, fixin' to pitch a fit, Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do?, Just the Facts, language, love of words, ordinary, pitch a fit, Southern dialect, truth, truth & consequences, What is truth?, writing in community on December 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Most of the things I’ve been accused of, I did do. Not terrible things. Normal, living day-to-day things. I once got into trouble for walking into the larger-than-life, under construction, sky barrel that would later become the water tank for the little subdivision I grew up in. I wanted to hear how it would sound [...]
PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min
Posted in 25 Things, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 3 questions, accountability, Anna Deavere Smith, Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do?, not-so-false accusations, road rage, stupid things to do, truth, writing in community on December 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I could probably wrack my brain and come up with something someone wrongly accused me of during a spat or a fight, but nothing stands out. In fact, I pretty much have done everything anyone ever accused me of. Maybe someone called me selfish, and I don’t think I’m very selfish at all. But you [...]
PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min
Posted in Life, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Secrets, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 3 questions, Anna Deavere Smith, betrayal, betrayer & betrayed, Bob Chrisman, false accusations, forgiveness, friends, friendships, Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do?, interview questions, red Ravine Guests, secret, truth, truth & consequences, writing in community on December 10, 2009 | 11 Comments »
By Bob Chrisman It would strain the imagination of anyone to believe I have escaped false accusations in my long life, so I won’t try. Early on, the world taught me that attention and praise attracted mean and nasty comments from other people. My life’s goal became to blend in with the world around me, [...]
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