Tag: random musings
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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December 27, 2008 11:06 PM EST --
Today was a good day. My son was going to take his driver's permit test, but we went to the wrong licensing place. He'll have to go on Monday, but the one we did go to was near the movie theater . . .
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January 01, 2007 08:39 PM EST --
Rush
Let the wind drown out
the world
while I fly
blind at
deafening speeds and
disregard
my life
I'm suspended
my own blood
presses hard
against the inside
of my skin
my bones sing out . . .
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May 14, 2007 06:42 AM EDT --
A couple weeks ago I made the decision to start self-publishing and wrote an article here on Gather. The support was wonderful. Mainly, I have a novel with characters screaming to get on in the world that . . .
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December 31, 2006 10:37 PM EST --
When my sister Lucy and I were little girls, we promised each other we would never let a man enslave us the way our Daddy had enslaved our Mama. I also promised Lucy I would always take care of . . .
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January 01, 2007 12:49 AM EST --
In the last minutes of 2006 I think of all the sub-new years I make for myself in the course of a year. How many times I fall and get up. Fall and give up, resolve to take a break from trying and find . . .
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January 08, 2007 06:20 AM EST --
I'm starting this at 4:45 and vow not to let up until 5:15, I will keep going until an alarm rings and then wrap it up. Even if it seems there is nothing to say, I will keep going. Over this past weekend . . .
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December 12, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
Yesterday morning I wrote three paragraphs worth of the sappiest drivel ever to populate a word processing program. I'm surprised my laptop didn't explode. Really. It was that bad. But the . . .
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January 10, 2007 05:49 AM EST --
So today is my last day at work until after MLK day. I took thursday and friday off to get caught up and possibly ahead a little in the class I'm taking. It can be tricky, because I'm supposed . . .
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January 01, 2007 07:30 PM EST --
Yellow Bird
I saw you this morning again
perched on the bird feeder in the yard
and I peeked at you
like an old friend
through my kitchen window
I stayed silent
knowing my presence
would . . .
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January 12, 2007 10:51 AM EST --
Cora had very little to do as Kylion's nursemaid. Jaielle monopolized the boy's time and neither Cora not Aertis was able to get more than a glance at him. She maintained that that . . .
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January 12, 2007 11:14 AM EST --
Perhaps every epic moon
explores out souls
like an ancient glass
dreaming above the word
With Magic breath
it chants a tune in a whisper
speaks under cover
to give you and . . .
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March 31, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Sometimes, when I walk in here
I feel excessively normal
Isn't it funny how normalcy is a pin prick
Less than freckle like dot
Planted in a minute vacuum
Too insignificant to . . .
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January 21, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
Aertis did not know that Kylion had already begun training a few months earlier. Jaielle had taken Kylion in secret to see Orin. Orin referred to himself as the Village prophet, but most . . .
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January 31, 2007 11:11 PM EST --
Orin maneuvered himself to Aertis' cottage and into Kylion's room. Aertis was doing his best to keep the boy still but Kylion's voice rang in the air like a siren, enough to make Aertis . . .
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January 01, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
please note-- this will be much more fulfilling, and make more sense if you've read Chapter 1-- thanks!
I didn't think it was proper for Nathaniel . . .
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January 07, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
Right now, I have three "in progress" stories in my drafts folder, and at the moment they all seem to have shrivelled. I have been try to work on one of them nearly every morning, but my "hour" . . .
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January 04, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
I know how you feel,
Standing there, imprisoned by that counter,
Smiling at me as you sell me
Saxophone reeds for my teenaged son.
You have music in your soul. . . .
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January 07, 2007 12:23 AM EST --
Prologue
Cora walked into Aertis' cottage just as she had every morning for the last few months.
"Good, you're here," Aertis declared. Cora paid no mind to . . .
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February 07, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
This morning a story zipped by my Yahoo home page radar about the city of New York considering banning the use of iPods or other electronic devices by pedestrians crossing the street. The suggested fine . . .
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March 28, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
As writers and artists we all have our standards, right? We want to express ourselves, be heard, etc. For every poem, story, essay, novel chapter, photograph, painting, drawing, etc. we are putting a it . . .
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