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Category Archives: Daily Sentence
Sky Lines
Waiting for the bus on a crisp lovely morning, I see a dozen or more lines across the sky, crisscrossed and fluffy-white. Some are narrow, most, wide with varying edges; undulating cords across the heavens. Are they all made … Continue reading
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Tagged clouds, daily sentence, dawn, prose poem, sky
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Happy Working Dog
Today I saw a working dog, trained to sniff bad things maybe hidden in trucks, boxes, cargo. This joyful hound was clearly delighted to be putting its world-famous olfactory brilliance to work. You’d expect to see a dog straining at … Continue reading
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Tagged daily sentence, Description, dog, scent
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We’re in the same bed…
…dreaming different dreams. (I did not come up with this Daily Sentence. I heard it at work today, mentioned in the context of conducting negotiations. It’s when two sides want the same outcome but differ on the way to get … Continue reading
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Tagged daily sentence, negotiating, negotiation, sentence, Writing
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City Stew
Buses coursed upstreet and down, shaking out people from many small towns adding flavor and spice to the already bubbling metropolis.
The Story of The Life Literary’s and the Daily Sentence’s Conception and Birth
August 28, 2009 Today I rushed to the Kennedy Center to get stuck there during a rain. Black clouds sailed into view. Lightning flashed. The storm approached rapidly, but I made it ahead of the rain. Naughty fellow, rushing away from … Continue reading
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Tagged daily sentence, Life Literary, Words, Writing
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Breaking Soil
I marvel at happy, green broccoli seedlings breaking soil after only three days, but only some of the lettuce is up. I worry when I don’t see sprouts as soon as I think I should. Planting seeds stretches my ability to trust … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Sentence, Garden: A Love Story
Tagged daily sentence, garden, gardening, seeds, sentence, starting seeds, Writing
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Pen to paper
The first step: pen to paper. Even if it’s lousy (because it might not be). Write it down. Get started.