A Perfect Sunset

By Eva Lewarne As you sit in a stream of light pouring into the kitchen tired hands folded in your lap the yellow of sunset reflected in roses carefully arranged in a vase behind your back. Dreaming with unwavering gaze as yellow sparkles dance in your eyes turned to the window with yellow and white [...]

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WRITING TOPIC — DOOR

Door etymology: Merger of Old English dor (pl. doru, “large door, gate”) and Old English duru (pl. dura, “door, gate, wicket”). The base form is frequently in dual or plural, leading to speculation that houses of the original Indo- Europeans had doors with two swinging halves. Form dore predominated by the 16th Century, but was [...]

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On Being A Mother Who Travels (Or A Traveling Mother)

Lagoon on West Lake of Hanoi, view from the lakeside pier at our hotel (Hanoi in the distance), January 2010, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.                   my dear Viet Nam what lies beneath the water? I see myself in you         [...]

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Alice Walker — Find A Quiet Space

I discovered my passion very early. I just love doing it. My mother claims that I was writing when I was crawling — with a twig in the sand, or on the margins of books. But I think just growing up in the South and having a somewhat difficult time, you know, really helped me [...]

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community poetry — the nature of renga (2)

Night Fog (0) Emptiness – 19/365, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.         One seagull feather hairy sculptures of seagrass piled up on the dunes; lady bugs and beetles land, shelter from the cold, coarse sand found in the sand someone lost a loved [...]

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MN Black Bear Den Cam: Will Lily Have Cubs?

Black Bear Lily On The BearCam, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2010, DenCam provided by the NABC/WRI, photo snapshot 2010 by QuoinMonkey. If you’ve never seen a wild black bear gently lick her paws, roll over in her den, or blow puffs of winter breath in sub-zero temperatures, Lily will change your life. I used [...]

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My Pug Has An Underwear Fetish

Should I be worried? -Related to posts Because She’s A Nut and Ten Things About Sony The Pug.

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Local Color — My Favorite Shots From Ha Long Bay

halong bay (one), view from a grotto, August 2009, photos in collection © 2009-2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Once upon a time, soon after the Việt people established their country, invaders came. The Jade Emperor sent Mother Dragon and her Child Dragons down to earth to help the Việt people fight against their enemy. [...]

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Eye Of The Dragon Tattoo

Eye Of The Dragon, Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2009, all photos © 2009-2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. inky, sweatless pores, all eyes drawn to the Dragon keeper of the Grail; night falls to The Hinterlands — she is searching for herself. -posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 -related to posts: WRITING [...]

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community poetry — the nature of renga

early laughter-green grows between a warm change time never walks past love it is written in the skies a heart shaped moon in your eyes I think of your eyes: like the winter sea, and shape my heart by the moon… sirens wake to crashing waves, eerie melody haunts me. heartstrings cut shorter the distance [...]

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Vietnam — On The Road To Change

pig on a scooter, pen and marker on graph paper, doodle and photos © 2009-2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. This is my seventh visit to Vietnam. Seven trips, back and forth across the great expanse. If I added up all the hours spent on just one leg of the trip—San Francisco to Hong Kong [...]

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On Feeling Good, Being Good, Doing Good, Doing Well in 2010 (Intention)

These are my intentions for 2010. They seem both like a lot and not enough. Some of it’s plain common sense. Some is just living better. At any rate, I’m saying it here. This is what I have. Let the fun begin! body~mind Heal my body. I’m still plagued by bouts of lower back pain, [...]

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On Lying Down In Stores, Saint Lucy, And Getting Unstuck In 2009 (Reflection)

Looking back I see myself lying flat on my back, unable to move. It was early February, 2009. I was literally lying on the floor of Burlington Coat Factory, my sciatica pinched. That’s how last year began for me. Immobilized. My best friend from graduate school, Ana Lucia, had come with her family all the [...]

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BlackBerry 365 Project — White Winter Squirrel

White Winter Squirrel – 1/365, BlackBerry 365, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Intentions for 2010. My first is to focus on my photography. I have a print project in progress in the studio. I hope to have 12 framed pieces done by Art-A-Whirl in the Spring. Some of [...]

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Reflection — Through The Looking Glass

Blue Moon Over Ice Skating Rink – 0/365, BlackBerry Shots, Full Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2009-20010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Through The Looking Glass season to season hindsight is 20/20 reflecting the past; future remains uncertain, jumps hoops through the looking glass –tanka from hindsight [...]

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