“The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.” Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races For the past five nights, the song of the peepers has risen to a crescendo. I hear them ululate their mating arias and the notes fill me with joy and profound … Continue reading Five Minute Friday: Place
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Mary Oliver, Wild Geese When I hear the word more, … Continue reading Five Minute Friday: More
Joining the Five Minute Friday writing prompt challenge as part of my goal to write and publish once a week in 2019. Find out more here. For this Friday’s Five Minute prompt, I decided to take a page (or a post) from my old blog, La Belle Dame de Merci and do a list of Top … Continue reading Five Minute Friday: Just
the joy and wonder of setting foot where no one else has been – perhaps in decades, perhaps ever – is one of the most remarkable feelings.
Joining the Five Minute Friday writing prompt challenge as part of my goal to write and publish once a week in 2019. Find out more here. From the late Middle English (in the sense ‘befitting, becoming, suitable’): from Latin convenient- ‘assembling, agreeing, fitting’, from the verb convenire I was stumped by my own curiosity into the etymology of … Continue reading Five Minute Friday: Convenient
