AARP MAGAZINE - 6-WORD MEMOIR

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GREATEST THINGS IN LIFE
AREN'T THINGS!

6-Word Memoir
AARP Magazine
Published: Dec. 2009

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

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PEACE, 
    LOVE  and
          ABUNDANT BLESSINGS
                    TO EVERYONE!

IDEAS...

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Ideas vibrate, pulsing against each other...
and there are a thousand illuminations
coming day by day as the work progresses.

-- Carson McCullers

A REMINDER FOR TODAY.....

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It has taken us long, too long to come to terms
with our inward selves.We have had to face a
moral crisis for which we were scantily equipped.
But at last we have reached our conclusions and
are ready to act. We have come through.

--Carson McCullers, 1941

~~ TIME ~~

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Time will say nothing but I told you so.
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

by W. H. Auden

WINNING PRIZE -

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My winning prize was a 5 min. phone session with writing guru, Mike Geffner. I was honored to speak with him and our delightful chat went beyond the assigned time and lasted over 20 minutes.  Thank you for offering your wonderful advice and precious time, Mike.

BOOKS! WONDERFUL BOOKS!

                                           
"You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life..."

- Sarah Allen

I WON !!!

                                        
Yay! I won! Mike Geffner's "Biggest Frustration" Contest: I have been chosen as one of 5 winners in Mike's "What's your  biggest frustration as a writer?" contest. What a lovely surprise. What a year this has been! Thanks, Mike.

MY BIRTHDAY !!

NOVEMBER 13TH -                                     

Thank you mom and dad for giving me precious LIFE~

LARRY MCMURTRY...

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"Reading fertilizes the writing..."
"Reading is the aquifer that drips, spongelike, into my fiction..."

~Larry McMurtry~

HEMINGWAY...

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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

Ernest Hemingway

*** A KISS ***

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I placed a KISS in both my palms
And closed my fists tight
Then stepped outside and
Opened my hands to the wind
As it took flight toward a sky of blue
I prayed that one day you'll lift
Your face and that KISS 
Will find its way to you.

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Copyright (c) 1994
Unicorn Anthology
L. Mitchell

SHAKESPEARE...

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

DAD'S ROOM

DAD'S ROOM

Foreboding, heavy
footsteps, one
bulb dingy white.
Then the darkness,
the pungent
stagnant room.
On the closet door
a jacket, old
shoes, the gloom.

A Vicks jar,
aspirin, curtains
drawn apart.
Sealed, sick smell
that lingers on
My anchored heart.


by Lora Mitchell


Copyright (c) 1980
New Life Publishers

EMERSON quote...

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

.....THE TRACKS WE LEAVE...

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

- Native American Proverb