….just beyond that gate.
Category: Getting out of the house
Winner: Best Literary steps….
…at local public library.
Another great CA Writer’s meeting….
…so much to learn about the Business of Writing! http://calwriters.org/
Everything looks like a poem…
…to me now! Went to a CA Writer’s Club meeting yesterday. The speaker was Poet ~ Devi S. Laskar ~. http://www.devislaskar.com/ She had us do some fun writing exercises. I’m not really even into poetry, but everything I see looks like a poem to me now.
Walking after rain…
..letting ideas flow as petals fall around me.
Learning how to Edit Genes!!!….
Went to a fascinating talk on CRISPR, a gene editing tool. I got lots of ideas for my Sci-Fi novel, in progress…
Day of the Dead
Went to a recent celebration. It made me think about the stories we tell, while we’re still here. And the stories people tell about us, when we’re gone.
Thank you to all the libraries….
…and bookstores, for having such great Author events! I try to go to at least one a week. My continuing education, continues…..
The Original “Missing Persons”…
Just back from my first visit to Seattle. I didn’t know that the city was named for a local Native American ~ Chief Si’ahl. Lots of art in public places; like this image on the side of a random building.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Transamerica Pyramid…
I was surprised to learn that the frog fountain beside the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, is an homage to Mark Twain, who for a time was one of the “Bohemians” who spent time at the Montgomery Block building, which was previously located on this site. Others there at the time included Bret Harte, Ambrose…
If that was “The Summer of Love”…
…what is this the “Summer of”? Went to a very thought provoking exhibit at the DeYoung in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love. https://deyoung.famsf.org/summer-love-art-fashion-and-rock-roll?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItI3W-tLM1QIVDG5-Ch2iGwl1EAAYASAAEgLS1_D_BwE (it’s there until August 20th).
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