Documentary Shorts At The Riverview, Droid Shots, original photograph edited with Paper Camera, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. When Liz was asked what movie she wanted to see before a belated birthday dinner at Blackbird, she chose the Oscar Nominated Short Documentary films at the Riverview Theater in [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Ode To Old Photo Books
Posted in Art, Books, Dreams, Personal, Photography, Practice, Vision, Wake Up, Work, tagged artists as muse, black & white photography, film photography, following the Muse, I remember, illustrations, inspiration, libraries, love of photography, photo books as inspiration, photography as Muse, places I find inspiration, Twin-Lens-Reflex Camera on February 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Twin-Lens-Reflex Camera, illustration from Black & White Photography: A Basic Manual by Henry Horenstein, Droid Shots, original photograph edited with Paper Camera, Golden Valley, Minnesota, February 2012, photos © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. One of the goals that came out of my last writing retreat with the Midwest writers was to focus on [...]
My Bad Hair Day Valentine
Posted in Art, Dreams, Food, Gratitude, Laughing, Life, Love, Personal, Photography, Place, tagged desserts, inclusive love, loving kindness, rituals of love, sharing chocolate, St. Valentine, The Art of Love, the joy of chocolate, the power of love, Truffles & Tortes, unconditional love, Valentine's Day, Valentines on February 14, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Valentine — My Bad Hair Day, Valentine dessert from Truffles & Tortes, Droid Shots, original photograph edited with Paper Camera, Golden Valley, Minnesota, February 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Imagine my surprise when Liz came home from grocery shopping armed with a large paper bag full of desserts from Truffles & [...]
In Search Of Letters & Artifacts On Abraham Lincoln
Posted in Books, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Death, Dreams, Life, Life In Letters, Photography, Place, Poetry, Politics, Reading, Relationships, Secrets, tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, bearing witness, black & white photography, books about Abe Lincoln, bookstores, excavating memories, history, Lincoln historians, Lincoln's birthday, Noah Andre Trudeau, photographs of the Civil War, Presidents Day, R, Ronald C. White Jr., support Independent bookstores, the Civil War, the last week of Lincoln's life, The North, the power of words, The South, the value of history, the value of old letters, what's left behind on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lincoln’s Birthday, Indie bookstore window photographed with Canon Powershot & edited with PhotoShop Elements, Wayzata, Minnesota, February 16th, 2009, photo © 2009-2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. A few years ago, Liz and I went to see Ronald C. White, Jr. at the Bookcase of Wayzata, an independent bookstore on Lake Minnetonka. He was there [...]
Sit, Walk, Write — The Fallow Field
Posted in Body, Bones, Death, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Life, On the Road, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Silence, Wake Up, Writing, tagged composting, craving silence, excavating memories, haiga, sit-walk-write, slow walking, the practice of gardening, the practice of writing, the value of process, the value of slowing down, the value of staring into space, writing friends, writing retreats on February 5, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Sunrise Undercover, Droid Shots, original photograph edited with Paper Camera, sunrise at a writing retreat in a small town outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. The Fallow Field The master gardener tithes and tills, never forgetting to bury her dead— broken bones rise from the fallow field odorous [...]
At The Car Wash
Posted in Art, Bodies Of Water, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Secrets, Wake Up, tagged art play, car wash, confessions of a Night Owl, haiga, into the blue, micropoetry, my blue period, nightowls, sleepless night, water, writing about water on February 1, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Self-Portrait: Car Wash, Droid Shots edited with Paper Camera, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, January 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. confessions of a night owl February breaks at midnight— should be packing for a retreat. my dirty little secret can’t take its mind off the car wash. -posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, February [...]






























