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Category Archives: Sketchbooks
Your Values Matter
October Sunday afternoon, Concord NH The flowers at the police memorial sculpture in Concord were beautiful in the noonday sun, but by the time I got back over there at 2 o’clock the light had changed and most of it … Continue reading
Posted in Musings on Life, Pen & Ink, Sketchbooks, Watercolor
Tagged Creative Habit, Looking, Perseverance
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Boarding School- Part 1
“Let us pray…” The minister bowed his head, as did the five hundred adolescent girls and the dozen faculty members attending Sunday morning services at Sage Chapel. The Gothic arches loomed overhead, a symbol of the complex Higher Power which … Continue reading
Posted in My Story, Sketchbooks, Watercolor
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My first blog post
If a blog is published and no one sees it, does it really exist? Zen koan for the night. I sit here in the late evening darkness, three stories up, window open, listening to the faint sound of rain … Continue reading