By Bob Chrisman The temperature at 3:50 p.m. is 101 degrees with a heat index of 106. Chocolate melts in these temperatures. I can’t even buy it and put it in my backpack without arriving home to a glob of a candy bar wrapper that, at one time, held a perfectly solid bar of chocolate. [...]
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PRACTICE — CHOCOLATE — 15min
Posted in Food, Laughing, Life, Personal, Practice, Seasons, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged Bob Chrisman, chocolate, diets, dog days of summer, favorite foods, food and culture, food of the gods, melting chocolate, milk chocolate, red Ravine Guests, summer, summer heat, the joy of chocolate, the practice of writing, writing about chocolate, writing about food on July 31, 2011 | 23 Comments »
WRITING TOPIC — CHOCOLATE
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Food, Laughing, Practice, Secrets, Wake Up, Writing Topics, tagged cacao, chocolate, cocoa, comfort food, dark chocolate, effects of PEA, etymology, etymology of chocolate, food and culture, food of the gods, History of Chocolate, Life's little pleasures, milk chocolate, PEA, phenylethylamine, secrets of chocolate, stimulants, the joy of chocolate, the practice of writing, the simple pleasures of Life, the taste of Writing Practice, Timeline of Chocolate History, writing about chocolate, xocoatl on July 16, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Chocolate – One Of Life’s Simple Pleasures – 28/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 28 BlackBerry 52 response to Jump-Off from Lotus, Around the City: Simple Pleasures, July 15th, 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. It’s late in the evening at the end of a long week, so I’m going to make this [...]
Art Changes Everything
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Books, Culture, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Life, Photography, Place, Practice, Quotes, Reading, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Art cannot save us, Art changes everything, BlackBerry 52 Collaboration, building community through the Arts, collaboration, community as witness, filling the well, great effort, inspiration, Intermedia Arts, life lessons, Ray Bradbury, small effort, so the world would not devour me, stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you, the artist's life, the value of the Arts, the writer's life, things I learn from Art, things I learn from writing, Twin Cities Pride, What do the Arts teach us?, What does writing teach us?, Writing cannot save us, Zen In the Art of Writing on July 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Art Changes Everything – 27/52, BlackBerry 52 — Week 27 Jump-Off for week beginning July 4th, 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Droid snapshot of the wall outside Intermedia Arts, taken Pride weekend, altered in Photoshop Elements, b&w version. Heat index over 100, sweat soaking through clothes. [...]
Suspended In Light (Reprise)
Posted in Art, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Vision, Wake Up, tagged alotus_poetry, art & poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52 Collaboration, BlackBerry shots, building community through the Arts, collaboration, haiga, Jim Campbell, no longer Earthbound, Northern Spark, photography as Muse, Poetry By Lotus, public art, QuoinMonkey, refuge in the Wind, Scattered Light, shadows & light, storyboard, the art of photography, the practice of photography, the value of the Arts on July 2, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Suspended In Light (Haiga), 23/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 23, June 2011, haiga © 2011 by A~Lotus, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Original BlackBerry photo Scattered Light taken by QuoinMonkey in June 2011 as part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche. Poetry for the haiga created and edited by [...]
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