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PANTRY
Meal planning aside, what is hardest to do in this low-carb diet is keep at it consistently. Only 64 grams of allowed carbohydrates macros but I’ve been consuming – to exaggerate – decadently 80 to 100 grams [sometimes more] because I have not stopped having my breakfast at the Bistro Country Style Café – and…
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SECONDS
My watch stopped. It fell, then the hour-hand got unscrewed from the center. I shook it, and this hand separated and lodged on the far right like a delete mark erasing a number. The minute long-hand is blocked and the hours will stay between 9 and 10 AM. I can shake the watch and force…
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BAGS
The black, ‘doctor bag” from Our Tribe, this leather hand bag that I used to carry to Sunday church service before the Pandemic, reminds me that the Word of God is my lifeline and the only way to a fully-lived life. Every bag I own has a notebook, and this bag’s resident journal contains notes…
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Faith and Poetry
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Christianity is a life of faith passionately pursued — faith not on a set of doctrines, but faith on the person of Jesus Christ, that He has done the ultimate sacrifice so all people will be saved. The premise is…
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Space
Comfort is best achieved when I’m alone and without a care in the world. Comfort means the absence of stress and problems. I used to say that I could be alone for long periods of time without feeling sad. Until my mother got sick and before she died, I had been living a satisfactory, solitary…
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CURTAINS
My condo has three windows with sheer, flimsy blue curtains. My sister will often draw these curtains close, conscious of those who will accidentally look up from the garden. But I keep sliding them open to let air in, not at all worried about my privacy, thinking that only those who will contemplate the trees…
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Electric Fan
Sometimes, it is a wheel on a bus that goes round the town. Sometimes it is the taxi driver’s steering wheel. Sometimes, it is the opposite in the song big and small of a circular magnet. He will turn it off when he’s trying to get my attention while I read. He will ask ‘what…
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Lala’s awarding night
10:54 Shangri La Hotel Garden Ballroom Marketing wise, investing in young designers and architects is a genius move. Thinking about book marketing it would be wise to invest in parents with young kids – toddlers to teenagers, inspiring them to motivate their children to read. Academic literary papers are for professors aspiring for promotion. But…
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Books as Prompts
11:07 From market market to pioneer via gate 1 The books I bought from Fully Booked are anthologies: one of contemporary poetry and one of travel literature. I wanted both as prompts for my own writing. My blogs could use a craft upgrade, and my poems, some soul. The travel book may inspire better content…