#BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting #Vandysky Lonely? "Strangers Passing in the Night", an impossible perspective. Acrylic on Canvas. Once there was a sculpture called "Two Left Feet" that was lost.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Booksrme #LifeWriting Two versions of "Blood". Acrylic on canvas.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Booksrme #LifeWriting I believe that while directly opposing evil (as in protesting) is a very good thing in itself, the action that will ultimately be used to effect is to show the results of that evil, for no human can live with the results for long.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Booksrme #LifeWriting So sad not to recognize the never-ending story for what it is-a brief visit with eternal life. Loving imperfection moves us always forward toward where our intentions take us and strips us bare. Write from that point of view.
#BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Booksrme #LifeWriting A story: a book with a beginning and an end. What does not have a beginning and an end is an archetype. Only a few writers deal with these characters. Penny, Winspear, and a few other do. Dobbs has no beginning and no end.
. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting Sorry to have been absent, but a bit of open heart surgery got in the way, and recovering is taking a long time. I'm on the road, though. Survival gives one food for thought. Soon as I relearn how to type, I'll back☺️
. #BookSky #WritersCommunity #Booksrme Jack Hughes is a close friend. I shouldn’t be surprised that he captures my attention with his paintings. This work expresses my deepest feelings. I had to have at least one of his beautiful prints of “We the People.”
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I may use "The Old Oak Table" as the title for my memoir if I ever finish one. Some of my friends will laugh, but I plan on surprising them. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting
Birthplace of Ideas? I believe there are birthplaces which promote sharing great ideas. My friend, Jack Hughes, painted his idea of the oak table that has been incubating ideas in my family and friends for over 130 years. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting
Some things we did not forget and now owe our community.
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Something to keep firmly in mind when balancing your "Book of Empathy".
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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I wondered why this piece of fluff was included in with the same pages as the "rights." Perhaps comic relief? Any golfers out there who seen someone who needs to win at any cost?
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H.G. Wells published ten "rights of man" in Paris in 1940. They were taken from a German writing that may have been suppressed by the regime in Germany.
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Published April, 1940 in Magazine Digest: "A far greater threat to democracy than a 3rd term is the time-honored expedient of dragging red herrings across the trail to obscure the real issues of a political contest."
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Defining Features of "Epic Intimate" style to convey your message with the intended results:
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Aspects of writing with intention and motive.
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"The key to creativity fits any lock." I don't know if this originated with me. I offer it to you to recast moments when someone says "Oh, I could never do anything like that." That shy smile you may receive is worth a million dollars. #BookSky #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting
This is a sculpture I probably won't get around to. At least I can conceptualize the parts of it with a sense of humor. I wonder if I should do it with the head of an old man. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting
My title for this painting was "Portrait" as I didn't think it needed further explanation. I wish I had kept this one in my collection.
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In 1958, the Nashville I experienced wasn't the clean, beautiful city it is now. It could be unexpectedly violent, deeply corrupt, and ultimately dangerous to the unwary.
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"Whose There?" The sculpture standing in the background was created by my dear friend Jerry Kidd.
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Aspiring to be fully human is a task for poetic expression that often generates unanticipated results.
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Posting this, fully intending to post again with some experiments on using this poem to serve as a data base for testing the AI to see how it puts together a pattern.
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Pixilated might be the key word here.
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The Economist also noted that poetry of a kind that is like a literary utility resembles road surfacing or sewage disposal (widely considered necessary for a civilized society, but no one wants to pay for it. Comments? #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Poetry #Booksrme #LifeWriting
An article in The Economist's May 31st 2025 issue claimed “Rhyme, once in its prime, is in decline.”Statisic: over 60% of lines in a poem rhymed at the beginning of the 20th century. Now, fewer than 5% do. Comments?
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In the center of the Great Heartwood Forest, the One Father waits for One Mother to return, but she never does.
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When asked, "I don't put illustrations in our books. If I've done my job, pictures in the minds of the reader are always better." As for the Road to Greyhaven, readers often say, "I always felt as if I was there in person."
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Rainy Night in the French Quarter.
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If you'll bear with me, I wanted to see if it's practical to serialize a book on Bluesky. To this end, I'm posting the "A Matter of Survival" prologue in three installments. This is #3.
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