Tag: writing
group name: pondering
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September 02, 2006 02:32 AM EDT --
Why is it that some people on Gather repeatedly publish articles that are controversial and inflammatory? Are these people determined to get attention at any cost? Some of these writers have . . . more
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October 10, 2006 03:38 AM EDT --
The old order changeth,
yielding place to new.
—Tennyson, Idylls of the King
Quality content vs. fluff may be one of the ostentatious reasons for the fissures in the community, though not the sole . . . more
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April 14, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
I recently received a chatty Gather email in which a writer lamented that he had received very few comments on his recent travel article. I read the article and discovered that it had several spelling . . . more
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October 23, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Recently it was suggested to me by a Gather and blogging friend that publication of memoir is a serious betrayal of trust, and that sharing of personal experience is better accomplished by fictionalization . . . more
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August 09, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
Different foods push memory to my surface. Polish dumplings filled with mashed potatoes and garlic remind me of my gramma. Cinnamon bread means Mom. And ice cream, oh ice cream pulls me into the start . . . more
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February 03, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
My youngest son, 9, turns 10 in a few days. He woke me an hour ago.
"I can't sleep."
He tossed his art supplies on the bed and crawled in after them. Graphite pencils, rubber eraser, . . . more
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October 21, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
She was bruised. Her heart from giving all her love to the man and finding out he betrayed her. Her body from the fight the ensued and the fists that struck her. In pain and in tears, . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
I wrote this little piece for the benefit of my editing/coaching clients who were beginning the daunting task of sending out manuscripts for publication. I thought there might be readers . . . more
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September 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
I love me wife. She is my partner. She is my best friend. I rely on her for advice, support and solace, but there are times when I don't like her that much.
This may seem a paradox, but . . . more
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November 19, 2006 02:04 AM EST --
I was hanging our clothing to dry in the September sun with my 3 month old son sleeping soundly in his sling. It was terribly hot and the mosquitos and flies were bothering. As I hung the . . . more
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July 01, 2007 07:05 PM EDT --
Sometimes when I don't understand something exploring it through writing helps me understand the situation better.
I have been working at an Asian food restaurant for six months while . . . more
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September 26, 2006 05:40 PM EDT --
I have been on Gather for about a month now and I am really enjoying it. I have met many wonderful people, read lovely poems (and envied them). I have read scrumptious recipes, cried with many of you, . . . more
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September 23, 2006 04:12 AM EDT --
It's 3:29 a.m. and I am unable to sleep. I have just taken a
shower in the hopes that might make me a little tired. Sometimes
it works; sometimes it doesn't. . . . more
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September 06, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
Tis the nature of the poet
to provoke, not to explain
he doesn't choose the avenue
the muse runs through your brain.
Within each poem resides a truth,
a piece torn from the soul
couched in meter, . . . more
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November 24, 2006 07:32 PM EST --
What your 10 favorite Crayola Crayon colors?
1- lemon yellow (yellow is a happy color)
2 - copper (different and shiny)
3 - raw umber (i still do not know what umber is but i like the sound . . . more
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March 15, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
- Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004)
(or, what I see is not what you painted)
This applies as much to writing or any other art as it does . . . more
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September 11, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
At one time I thought that some here on Gather were starting groups just to get points. For a few this is no doubt true. I have nothing against the ones who do this.
I want to apologize to those . . . more
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October 06, 2008 12:24 AM EDT --
A few nights ago I was in the man-zone. I had a bottle of beer, a bowl of chips and a cat sprawled across the arm of my recliner.
I was enjoying Burn Notice , an edgy sitcom about a spy turned private . . . more
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November 08, 2006 08:26 AM EST --
A Poem That Gives You Goosebumps...
A drunk man in an Oldsmobile
They said had run the light
That caused the six-car pileup
On 109 that night.
When broken bodies lay about
"And blood was everywhere," . . . more
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September 11, 2006 09:23 AM EDT --
Toby Keith wrote this after 9/11. Even though it is a song, I believe one can read into what he is trying to say. I saw him in concert and when he sang this, I stood up proud and got the chills. Now . . . more
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