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Matriarchy and the Matter of Bias
“Matriarchy has often been presented as negative, in contrast to Patriarchy as natural and inevitable for society, thus that matriarchy is hopeless. Love and Shanklin wrote: When we hear the word “matriarchy”, we are conditioned to a number of responses: … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, bias, inheritence, learning, matriarchy, matrilineal descent, myth, patriarchy, story
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Oblivescence
As a writer, I collect words. Going so far as to receive a new word, in my mailbox each day, from Dictionary.Com. I do that because they are not common words, not the stuff of everyday usage. I actually enjoy … Continue reading
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Tagged Dictionary.Com, image, learning, love of words, Memory, misplacement, Oblivescence, process of forgetting, writing
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About Those Mis-Takes
The banner on this blog is a mistake, an accident. I was attempting to do pen and ink sketching in nature. I was somewhere in my mid-forties and wanted to learn some of the things I hadn’t while in high … Continue reading
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Tagged adding water, exploring, happy accidents, learning, missteps, mistakes, pen and ink, sketching
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A Brief Tribute To Viv
A Brief Tribute to Viv I have four blogs. Two supposedly for poetry, the other two for prose. I am working on the last and final section of my poetic memoir, but it’s difficult. It concerns the last eight … Continue reading
Lost And Found
Believe it or not, I’m still sorting through all that old poetry. Lots of memories, and yes, a few pieces I have no memory of ever writing. Recognize the handwriting, but nothing else. Many of the poems take me back … Continue reading
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Tagged campus politics, career, college, files and piles of paper, harangue, harassment, learning, Lost and Found, nemesis, pack rat, promises, writing poetry
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Journey Stone #55
Journey Stone #55 Learning Moving through each moment, alive to information the senses feed us. Incorporating that with all that we already know, then stepping into the next moment. Never-ending process. Can be both rewarding and confusing, unless we … Continue reading
Learning List
I did something this morning that I haven’t done for a long time. When I was teaching, I created what I called Journey Stones. They were polymer clay in lots of variegated colors, flattened into somewhat round shapes, and each … Continue reading
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Tagged addictive, dishes, ice cream, Journey Stones, learning, magic, misunderstanding, Poetry, prose, reading the spaces, words, writing
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About Opportunity and #41
In response to Claudette’s Weekly Writing Challenge #4: Opportunity. Years ago, when I realized I actually had a dream (more a wish, or vague desire at the time), I read a very important piece of information. I don’t even know … Continue reading
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Tagged bliss, coalesce, dream, editing, heart's desire, honing dream, inconsequential, increments, learning, living inside the dream, making dream concrete, naysayers, opportunist, opportunity, process, publishing, reality, resonse to writing challenge, romantic image, rose-olored, snowball's chance, teaching, wishful thinking
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Jump In Anytime
I’ve had a very busy couple of days. Responding to prompts, visiting and commenting on other people’s responses to the same prompts, and then reading and responding to the comments left on my own sites. I’ve also been out … Continue reading →