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 The Guardians 

a painting, just a quick painting to see colors dance with each other on paper, moving, spreading, blending and creating lines. 

I might be superfluous in the process

I lift the paper, let water guide the lines as it will, amazed at the life in a painting. I think of how life moves and blends and resists too, how the colors so pretty on their own, look when next to other colors and that each living thing has it's own colors, and how each living thing changes a bit when it's near another.

will they blend ...

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There is an online challenge to create art daily... on an index card with a prompt and a weekly style

this week the style is pen/pencil/marker... a line making tool and today's prompt is "root" 

I drew my from seeing a pic online... just pen and ink (pigma .05) in black. 

On the back I wrote my thoughts on roots and realized we have very shallow roots here, almost forming them "in a pot" so we can pick up and go. 

 

New roots being formed

 

My roots are airborne roots, spread around the earth to women I ...

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the prompt for writing this week is to rewrite an old poem or at least write a new piece and link back to an older one...

my older writing was a story of my beloved boy Cole titled

 "Cole-dilocks and the three chairs"

https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/2015/08/cole-di-locks-and-three-chairs.html 

Cole's poor  body wore out at age 14, leaving his mama bereft. I got a strong message one day that he wanted me to move on and love again but would always be with me the only way he could, in spirit. I asked if he could bring ...

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Today I am here to share my words and thoughts... the new to me link party for writers offered us a prompt of the word "landscapes" The above image is from my sketchbook, a lesson to remember a place in photos, paintings and words. 

the landscape within...

not visible to others, not even to the individual always, is our internal landscape.

it's said what we see is often what we look for... or look at. I see patterns and shapes in tree trunks because I look at them. My husband sees a tree, because his focus is different.

who ...

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The prompt for this row of our do it yourself  round robin quilts this week is shoo fly blocks. I don't want to do that so I took the block as inspiration and fussy cut fabric "post cards" to do on glamingo

still figuring out a layout and making it all fit... 

 in a return to my Sunday Stories... this prompt is from the Sunday Whirl, my story follows...

she stopped weaving for a moment, rubbing her temples to ward off the headache she felt building. Luckily there was a ghost of a breeze coming through the open window ...

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the words for this week's story prompt come from The Sunday Whirl
There are emotional jails too...





she was the storyteller, the keeper of secrets and the author of what -might -be.


It was a role she liked, unlike "dutiful wife" or "quiet woman" or even "nicest friend"


She was known by her roles but she slyly wondered if people who thought they knew her, would be shocked to know who she really was.


probably.


oh my but it was cold today. Yesterday the heat and humidity of the farm curled the little tendrils of hair that escaped her ...

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The challenge words for this week's story are from sundays whirligig
feelings, dirt, metal, many, clock, stuck, turned, one, meal, forty, lint, let

My story is:
                                               The clock on the mantel
 
 How quickly the dust piles up, she thought. Seems like I am always chasing dirt.


the clock ticked loudly on the mantel, tick. tick. tick. Time ticking by, minutes turning into years, as if turning forty wasn't reminder enough.


She felt stuck at the same time she felt carried along the timeline against her will. Like a solid crowd of people so close, she can lift her ...

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Farm Wife" by R.S. Thomas: clean, sweetly, coaxes, island, apron, humble, corners, daring, seas, body, quiet, embroider

 

Moira wiped her hands on her apron after cleaning the counter off.  The bread was quietly rising in the warm oven, the soup was simmering on the stove top, and she just cleaned the last of the flour off the old countertop. 

 

She'd cooked in this kitchen for so long now that she couldn't remember the first time. It must have been with granny, helping her make biscuits. Moira would have been about 3 ...

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Someone left a sweet comment on one of my posts, so I followed her back to her blog, which was wonderful so I signed up to get posts delivered to my inbox. Then to another blog, and another. Writers all! I found some peeps!
Enjoy some pretty music while you read! (French Christmas waltz)

This prompt was for short stories, a prompt a day for December, and I couldn't resist it!
You should use the prompts as the first line in a little story, so here goes

After the Ball
after the ball, tired and just a little tipsy ...

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Sunday Stories
the  challenge words are from sundayswhirligig  and it's not easy to use them all in a little story but here goes!

bleak, stable, hay, lamb, frosty, worship, bliss, part, moan, milk, give, shepherd

                                       A different kind of worship

He planned his words to her, the prettiest girl in the whole county. 

her name is pretty... Ashley... ashley.... Ahhhhh-shley....

He bought her a necklace with her name on it to give her for a Christmas gift. 

He planned the whole event, it would happen out in the barn while sitting on the hay bale. He had milk to ...

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I wasn't going to do one of these but the words captured my senses. Does that happen to you? A song, a phrase, a pretty sight captures your senses and makes you want to create?


(THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Bell Birds" by Henry Kendall : moss, cedar, light, sing, fear, fairies, woodlands, wayfarer, pebbles, childhood, keep, glimpses)

The childhood wayfarer


she packed her school lunchbox with a thermos of juice, a sandwich and some chips. Then she gathered her book, her crayons and paper, and a little blanket and took off after saying she'd see her mom ...

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