Category: creativity
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Oregon author Ken Kesey knew well what practicing novelists learn: Writing a novel, regardless of its quality, is hard. Truth. I’ve written four. The first one found a small regional publisher and came out to positive reviews and modest success. The second one, with the help of a New York agent, circulated the halls of…
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I almost missed it. This checkered lily (Fritillaria meleagris) with its slender stem and bright down-facing blossom is no show stopper at The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, where I found her a month ago. This time of year it’s the rhodies, azaleas, and dogwood blooms causing traffic jams on the paths. Checkered lilly sits…
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You push a button and a poem comes out on a long narrow paper like a grocery store receipt. The poem is by a self published minister. It is not a great poem. But it does rhyme. And it is a fine thing to have dispensed freely right after security.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 