Hey There

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Quote of the Day:
“As a child, I was haunted, above all things, by the schoolroom atlas. I thought of it as sort of one’s back door.”
– Bruce Chatwin
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I can’t believe this much time has passed since my last entry. I know it is very easy to get out of habit once I stop. On top [...]

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A New Journal Begins

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Quote of the Day:
“Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
– Anne Rice
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What a day! I [...]

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Community Service

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Quote of the Day:
“Today is a dawdly day. They do seem to alternate do a whole of a day’s work and then the next day, flushed with triumph, I dawdle. . . . The crazy thing is that I get about the same number of words down either way.”
– John Steinbeck
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I am in awe of [...]

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A Day For Chores

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Quote of the Day:
“The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it hast to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it’s a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other [...]

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It’s Rain Today

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Quote of the Day:
“When stuff in life gets really rough, I would just die if I was not writing a novel. Once you think it up, it’s like a whole other city with a little door and every time you sit down to write you just open the door and there you are – a [...]

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A New Meditation Partner

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“When Matisse was working hard he used the most appalling language. “What a goddamn way to earn a living!” he would say over and over, and you can believe me that that was the least of it.”
– Rosamond Bernier
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With Max not feeling top notch the last couple of days, I have been meditating by myself. [...]

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I’ve Gone Brain Dead

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Quote of the Day:
“Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear, but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon.”
– Rufus M. Jones
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I started out this morning with a marvelous idea to write about. The only problem, I didn’t write it down.
Now that I’m here to write and I [...]

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I Love That Man of Mine

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Quote of the Day:
“It’s a reactive thing, like a Geiger counter; you click whenever you come close to whatever you were built to do.”
– Stephen King
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One of the things I’ve not written about is that Michael and I have been playing music in the evening and dancing. The carpet does not make a dance floor [...]

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Max is Having a Hard Day

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Quote of the Day:
“There is in each of us an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground around it into a swamp.”
– Mark Rutherford
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Today after arising and taking care of the kitties; Michael noticed that Max was doing [...]

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What is Your Favorite Tool?

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Quote of the Day:
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.”
– Mitch Radcliffe
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Actually, I like handguns and tequila but not together. I’ve been around folks who have had the two together and it is fun but a dangerous situation.
I know [...]

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