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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 15

March 19, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

    On Trying on Clothes It is plainly in our living shown By fit of feathers how we have grown. Word Count: 15   All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here.   In the stillness, Sandy   A first line poem starter inspired by an Every Day Poem in my […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 16

March 18, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

  Breathe When heaven’s spotlight beams upon your stillness, I reach out and touch… just to be sure. Word Count: 16 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness, Sandy

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 18

March 16, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

  He was shrouded in sadness last spring betrayed broken having given all, but love came softly double joy.   Word Count: 18 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. My son popped the question, and she said yes! We’ll be gaining a new daughter… AND a grandson. Color us all with joy. […]

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One Less Word For Lent 2015 – 19 (Still Saturday)

March 13, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

  Take note. “There is holy in the everyday moments . . . “There is resurrection in the hallowed corners of [your] life.” Word Count: 19 ~Laura Boggess, Playdates with God: Having a Childlike Faith in a Grown-up World  All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here.   In the stillness. Sandy   […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 20

March 13, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

    L.L. Barkat is good at dealing dares. Last night it was to use two key phrases in a single post. I think she mentioned something about cookies. I may have even heard the word, “chocolate.” But as an “official” mischievous barista for Tweetspeak Poetry, how could I ignore her–even for just a cup […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 21

March 12, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

A Kara Heart I want a Kara heart soil soft and sown with kindness wild like butterfly weed fragrant as a lilac in spring. Word Count: 21 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. Kara’s blog: A Mundane Faithfulness.   In the stillness, Sandy Love is kind. ~ 1 Corinthinans 13:4 Note: Kara […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 22

March 11, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

Impossible Dream We think we can save the light, dial it into our hands at will, reset it for our own purposes. Impossible dream.   Word Count: 22 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. History of Daylight Savings Time     Oh, how sweet the light of day, And […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 23

March 10, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

    March My kitchen’s hemmed by the sun. Morning and evening the angles of light reveal every speck, expose every flaw, magnify my shortcomings. March. Word Count: 23 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here.     It’s the time of year when we Michiganders go from sinking knee-deep […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 27

March 4, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

  Frisbee Snow The yard is a china plate that shatters as I step on it. Shards skitter across its surface, slide into the trunk of a tree. Frisbee snow. Word Count: 27 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness (and coldness, Sandy When blizzards roar out of the north […]

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One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 28

March 4, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

  Bunny in a Bush Bella the Bad stands guard on the sill while psychodogs patrol on the bound Sound the alarm! A bunny in a bush is worth two on the ground. Word count: 28 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. God guards you from every evil, he guards […]

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For most of us, knowledge of our world comes large For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?" ~ Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder
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Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faith Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~ Psalm 136:1
A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana in the background until I downloaded the photos. That, I believe, is the one that got caught in one of the openings in the neighbor's chain link fence. We tried in several (safe) ways to dislodge it without luck and could think of no other option but to leave it. Somehow it apparently dislodged itself. We also believe this is the pair that was getting into another neighbor's garden. We haven't seen either one since the last cold snap, so we are wondering if they survived. 
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Thinking some may have tumbled from their perches last night. Pretty sure it will be raining iguanas tonight since we are under a frost advisory. It's cold. And windy.
Just sing... sing a song... Singing our way into Just sing... sing a song... 

Singing our way into the weekend.
"We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramse "We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramsey in Rembrandt is in the Wind
Now you see me... now you don't. Now you see me... now you don't.
"I started looking and listening. I realized that "I started looking and listening. I realized that work, like life, is shot through with poetry. It was everywhere. I was so taken with what I discovered that I wrote a book about it." @gyoung9751 
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Whether you work in an office, a retail store, a restaurant, or at home... Whether you work on roads or on power lines, or on high buildings...Whether you collect trash or preach sermons, or care for your kiddos. Whether you do art, or weave words, or take photos of a common gallinule AKA moorhen AKA swamp chicken--it's all shot through with poetry.
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So pay attention. Find a poem.
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Read more at https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2023/01/10/its-poetry-at-work-day-2023/
Rising… Rising…
Everyone needs a little balance in life. And maybe Everyone needs a little balance in life. And maybe a beauty routine. And breakfast. Especially breakfast. I wonder if it consists of a few fire ants. I hope so. (Well, not mine. I'm having oatmeal with chia seeds. What are you having this morning?)
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P.S. Happy Friday!
"Though your destination is not yet clear You can "Though your destination is not yet clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire." ~John O'Donohue 
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A blessing for a new beginning in a new year. I'm sure he wrote it especially for me. At least I'm claiming it. Maybe it will speak to you, too.
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Also, I'd really like this skirt --> 
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Read the whole poem--> -->
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Well, bummer... The whole page didn't print. Read it in the comments below.
"What precocity, a bird half the size Of an Anjou "What precocity, a bird half the size
Of an Anjou pear." ~ Stephen Kuusisto in "The Mockingbird on Central" (Find it in The Poets Guide to the Birds edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser)
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"The morning pages are the primary tool of creative recovery." ~ Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way. 
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I've been in a long creative drought, so I started morning pages--again. This time I've got a bit of an accountability group through @refineretreat's Refinery--which I finally also joined this year. I'll turn 74 this month. I'm not ready to grow old while I age--though everything does seem to take longer while time goes by faster.
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#aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Tonight’s walk in the neighborhood. I’m still Tonight’s walk in the neighborhood. I’m still kinda amazed that out of all the places we could have ended up after moving from a place I said I’d never move from), here we are—planted right next to the northern Everglades. Six-plus years, and I still shake my head in wonder.
"So fancy is the world..." ~ Mary Oliver in "This "So fancy is the world..." ~ Mary Oliver in "This World." #aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Look, Mom! I can walk on water! #aweandwonder #tsa Look, Mom! I can walk on water! #aweandwonder #tsaweandwonder
Gazing into 2023 like… Let’s take it step by Gazing into 2023 like… 
Let’s take it step by step with hope and courage. Also I hope to be posting again more often.
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Happy New Year!
The morning before the last morning of 2022. 🌴 The morning before the last morning of 2022. 
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71 degrees. Heading to 83. I can live with that.
From the top of Brasstown Bald—the highest point From the top of Brasstown Bald—the highest point in Georgia at 4784 feet.
Winding roads… Winding roads…
Tonight's moon. It's kinda okay. Tonight's moon. It's kinda okay.
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