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Why Oh Why?

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Am I here again, at the blog? I have so much to do. Really. I’m so far behind…Really.

And yet here I am, at the blog, twitching.

I entered another contest, this one a short fiction and locally.  I wasn’t ready to go public with the Tool story, I don’t think, so I did a quick run-through revision of Ten Pennies, and submitted that.

The biggest change was I took out the hokey ending.  I didn’t wrap it up, but I guess that’s ok. He left and he’s happy. That’s all that matters. He still tells her he loves her.

So. I’m here, at the blog, and I can’t sit still.

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And So It Begins, Again

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I have an overwrought mind. My mind is overwrought.

I was going to blog about the weather. Oh, the weather. Frightful, wonderful. It’s raining and has been all morning. It’s also cold.

Cold, wet, miserable LOVELY weather. Weather that makes you stay in bed. Forces you to, really, as you succumb to the warmth and coziness of comforters and covers and, dare I say it, warm balls of fur.

But then I was thinking of Rumi:

“When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper

can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven

to be useful as a mat. If they weren’t interlaced,

the wind would blow them away.

Like that, God paired up

creatures, and gave them friendship.

It’s been on my mind a bit for a few different reasons. Partially because whenever I pick up the book, it falls open to that page with my scribbles and exclamation points. Partially because, meaning aside, it’s just lyrically beautiful.

And partially because of the quilt thing.

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Back to School

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It’s Labor Day, and here I am, sipping coffee and reading Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Right now, Shelley’s not my favorite person, but I’m sure it’s just personal bias. He’s more verbose than I am, and, given the length of the reading assignments, I’m sort of resenting that.

I did a thing, you see. I’m not sure if it’s wise or foolish, crazy or sane, but I did, in fact do a thing.

I dropped out of the Education program.

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