Category Archives: REALITY

REALITY?: The Numbers Game

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Susan

Some pre-dawn dark garage weirdness–and I tend to pay attention to those things: I have two older sisters.  Their birthdates are 6-11 and 5-7. 6 + 5 = 11 – November 11 + 7 = 18/2 = 9 My birthdate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Mystery

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Susan

A little bit of sleuthing skill, armed with pencil and tissue paper, I made an overlay of the sewer line from the maps at Town Hall.  Yes, there is 600 ft. of line (now why couldn’t I get that answer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Walking Wounded

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Susan

Yesterday a friend came in for framing; I realized that yes, of course, it had been her that called the day before.  But up at 6 a.m. to finish someone else’s who I thought had called because the mind just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Intrigue, Plot

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Susan

So now I’m unraveling real mystery: how you hook up one house with 600 ft. of sewer pipe for $45,000 on a one-acre lot (200 x 200 approximate).  I knew the minute I saw the estimate that unless the pipe … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Stress

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Susan

Bad, bad two days spent waiting for phone calls when all I wanted to do was run down to Derby to do some research at Town Hall and to plant pansies on my mother’s grave on the fifth anniversary of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Sunday

Posted on April 29, 2007 by Susan

A drive down by the river gushing on its way through bends of wood.  The trees and bushes blushing with the thought of spring, pale shades of what they hope to be.  The willow lemon yellow, the maples pink, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Back to the Backyard

Posted on April 28, 2007 by Susan

Sat outside a moment in the dusk of an overcast spring evening.  Silent save for the peepers and so still without a wisp of breeze.  Turning green even as I watch it.   Peach blossoms pink and popping out along the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Hope

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Susan

Well there you have it.  There ya go.  The day winds down from high wire tension to swirl into a mellow mood.  Acceptance of being good but only just and still not quite enough.  So tired.  The mist hangs in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Apprentice

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Susan

Can’t stand Trump the man.  Can’t comprehend the immaturity of the wannabe Trumpets.  Yet I can’t help but watch this final episode on right now. Why? Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Symbolism

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Susan

After eight years of nesting wrens, the bluebird house has finally been settled into by a nesting pair of, well, bluebirds.  In early spring we’d seen at one time five of them together at the feeder.  Not to feed, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Paths

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Susan

Though I have not always walked along the straight and narrow and perhaps I should have as the side roads always wound around through years of pain and pleasure, there is something, I would think, to say about the comfort … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Changes

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Susan

With the first warm day of spring–not counting January–how can I smell the lilacs still tightly bound up in their buds? And why the sudden avalanche of workload in the shop, as if pictures hung in winter must be taken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Elements

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Susan

In the past week alone we’ve seen how the structure and narrative of life gives story.  The elements are there:  drama, conflict, character, plot, exposition, arc, resolution.  Even the analysis and critique by the media as well as individuals having … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: The Blame Game

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Susan

When is it going to dawn on us that, even as they tear apart Cho Seung-Hui’s computer to find which games he played, what websites he visited, in other words, who they can point to for the answers to why … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Character

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Susan

First of all, my heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims so senselessly slaughtered at Virginia Tech.  I find it strange to sort out the reactions.  The grief I understand.  The only other character that may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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