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Poetry Friday & Poem Swap Treasures from Mary Lee

It’s Poetry Friday! Dori welcomes us with deep breaths and deep thoughts at Dori Reads. This week I am sharing…

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Poetry Friday & an OLW-related swap

It’s Poetry Friday! Julianne at To Read, To Write, To Be is hosting today and celebrating her birthday. Three cheers…

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Mirror Monday Quote by Jean Cocteau

“Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.” ~ Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), Des Beaux-Arts Mirrors are not always what…

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Poetry Friday & a Summer Swap Treasure

  Thank you, Jone, for this wonderful poem! Jone tells me it is a shadorma, which follows this syllabic pattern*:…

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Mirror Monday Quote by Sir Francis Bacon

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by…

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Poetry Friday & a library poem

It’s Poetry Friday! Chelanne at Books4Learning is hosting! Today I have a haiku inspired by a visit to the university…

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Mirror Monday Quote by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

“I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an…

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Finishing: A 20-year quilt project

Back in the 1990s, my mom subscribed to a fabric-of-the-month club. She collected small squares, and when I was home…

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Poetry Friday & vacation haiku

It’s Poetry Friday and the marvelous Mary Lee is hosting at A Year of Reading. Earlier this week my husband…

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Mirror Monday Quote by Lawrence Durrell

“Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.” ~ Lawrence Durrell “Necessity is the mother of invention,” is the old saying. Perhaps…

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