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Category Archives: Time
After bathing at Baxter’s
Always a great place to relax, recharge and get some heat during the cold season, and just half a block from Jack’s, where Grace treated us to some of her finest albeit eclectic California cooking. Lots of Lone Stars, tequila … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Flash fiction, Fun, Life, Literature, Music, Nonsense, Time, Writing
Tagged after bathing at baxter's, drinkin, friends, hot spa, Jefferson Airplane, lone star, party, sauna, tequila
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Resolution
I have been idle at a nagging pace. I wrote and painted very little last year. This was certainly due to the fact that I was too busy in real life – moving to another country, starting a more or … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Life, Time, Writing
Tagged 300th anniversary, happy new year, idle, idleness, nagging, new year, pace, resolution
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Sunday morning
For S. A tidal sound wave of the Italian airforce flying formations woke us at eight forty-five today The office is as messy as usual, its effect on my writing and other parameters yet to be examined as to creative … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, India, Life, Literature, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged chaos, Italy, Rome, Sunday
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Cocoon, ca. 1975
… and then we’d fall asleep, face to face / and tightly embraced on my bed, / to the story of Suzanne … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Love, Lyrics, Music, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged Leonard Cohen, One Single Impression
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Fugue in D minor
No surprise then that the dinner served by the rats was birdfeed. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bland observations, Creative writing, Enigma, Literature, Poetry, Surrealism, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Time, Writing
Tagged One Single Impression, Sunday Scribblings
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The books that changed everything
Pretty soon I started reading John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, Truman Capote, Upton Sinclair and many other American writers. Continue reading
Below average ride on a headless horse
Picture of an uncomfortable medieval ride taken at Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, Alsace. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bland observations, Fun, Photography, Time
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A subject never raised
Now she’s married, happily it seems, with two cute kids, and I get to see her every once in a while… Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Enigma, Life, Literature, Love, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Time, Writing
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It is written that …
It is written that future Man will move up one step on the hierarchical ladder to become a creator, just like the angels, archangels, thrones, excusiai and others are creators. Thought, which already has creative powers in some select few … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Nature, Science fiction, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Time, Writing
Tagged Cafe Writing, creation, meme
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A look around, departure & let loose poem
so foregoing the white floc and only taking a sip from the
white armagnac that had come by post from that
part of France in a small bottle labeled “eau de
muses” to prevent any kind of customs troubles Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Bob Dylan, Creative writing, Film, Frank O'Hara, Happy poem, Life, Literature, Love, Movies, Poetry, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Time, Writing
Tagged meme, memes, Totally Optional Prompts
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The main thing haiku
The main thing is not to sit around while you might be attempting to make up your mind as to whether or not you might possibly want to spend time with me – James Steerforth ( © 2008 ) … … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Fun, Life, Literature, Love, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged haiku, Heidelberg, trip
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Life out of focus
Eternal procrastinator, decisions delayed, cannot find the edge, the moment of true feeling – James Steerforth Written using delayed, edge, focus from 3WW LXXXVII.
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Enigma, Life, Literature, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged 3WW, focus
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Tell me about something that will stay forever
“Like, will you stay forever?” Nutan said. “I’ll try. But eventually I’ll have to go. And you might have to go before that.” “Where would I go?” “Study, for example. At a school in some other town.” “I would never … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creative writing, Flash fiction, India, Life, Literature, Time, Writing
Tagged children, painting, permanence, Totally Optional Prompts, transformation
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The T. B. blues
The day that happened I sat at my computer it’s easy to catch me there lots of times typing away, maybe poetry, maybe some other shit who knows and probably was reminded of some movie I’d never seen but heard … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Fun, Life, Literature, Poetry, Stellar poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged blogosphere, blues, humor, parody, rambling, Sunday Scribblings
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The future of the planet
I’ve followed Sunday Scribblings for about half a year and have always been impressed by the responses to the various prompts. However, I am absolutely amazed by the quality and pertinence of many of the contributions the current The future … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Life, Poetry, Time, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anthology, future, planet, Sunday Scribblings
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Back home
When I returned, I found a desolate home I hardly recognized – red carpeting with a diamond pattern I would have never picked, broken glass on the floor, an unknown red chair as the only furniture left. The windows looked … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Enigma, Flash fiction, Life, Literature, Surrealism, Time, Writing
Tagged Cafe Writing, Flash fiction, longing
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The plunging pool at Tovara, Nayarit
In my mind now: Billy Vaughn playing a glaring Las Golondrinas Back then – The rope swing above the Tovara pool, a round hole at the end of a long, narrow passage through mangrove – and splash into the dark … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Literature, Nature, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged memory, Mexico, Nayarit, plunging, pool, Totally Optional Prompts, Tovara, travel
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Out of this world
The evening I proposed to my girlfriend – the most gorgeous, most intelligent, most perfect, most patient, most exciting, most humorous, most lovable person I’ve ever known – turned into a night of revelation. When I’d spoken, she took my … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Enigma, Flash fiction, Flowers, Fun, Life, Literature, Love, Science fiction, Time
Tagged alpha centauri, extraterrestrial, time travel, world
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Fleeting gifts / Easter runup
they’re like sleeting rain, something that hits you lightly & obliquely, in an uneasy way between cold, cool and the thrill of the unknown, the thrill of not sure what to do with, and now I’ve got nearly seven minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Creative writing, Life, Time, Writing
Tagged Cafe Writing, Easter, razor edge of time, timed writing, Writing
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Steer Forth! 