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Am I a poet?
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How do you read?
Here is one writer describing another writer, a writer I like. The subject: reading.
The writer is Petya K. Grady of A Reading Life, who interviewed Simon Haisell of Footnotes & Tangents. You might know...
Morning light
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Quick thought
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I should should should
Do what I want want want
But something else is telling me
That I can’t can’t can’t....
Library stories
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September theme
Back in December, I laid out some themes for the months of 2026. September’s theme was “moving our energy.”
There is a definite sense of movement this month as the days shorten rapidly and the equinox app...
Bye-bye Belmont
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Alien plant
These strange flowers, which look like alien creatures with eyes and antennae, are an Australian import called grevilleas. I’d never seen them before I came across these while out on a neighborhood ramble last...
What happens when we write?
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Leo ends today, Aug. 22. Tomorrow, Virgo. I was once married to a Virgo, but he really had a Leo personality.
Cobwebs
It’s late summer, and spiders serve up vast platters of silken web on shrubbery. It seldom rains in Augu...
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Fran Gardner curates a sock drawer of ideas that don’t match. She salts them with photos and poems. Nothing is what you’d expect.
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