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Awe Practices and Prompts

Practicing awe with the For Awe publication (updated 6/22) — The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed…

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Allow Yourself to be a Writer and See What Happens

When I was just settling into pandemic quarantine I thought it would be a great time to follow the little voice in my head…be a writer and see what happens. Learn How to Blog I had been traveling about once a month for the year and a half leading up to quarantine. I had…

Writing Life

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Allow Yourself to be a Writer and See What Happens

Published in For Awe

·Aug 2

For Awe Highlights — July

Awe-Filled and Awe-Inducing Stories and Poems — For true happiness and better physical and mental health, make way for awe. In the vastness of the universe, the opportunities for finding awe are unlimited. Sharing our experiences of awe increases the impact it has on us and further connects us for the greater good. …

Awe

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Published in Weeds & Wildflowers

·Jul 6

The Power of Nostalgia

First Week of July — Day 1 I have been looking for rainbows when conditions are right — when the weather makes a quick switch to rain on a bright sunny day. I used to think those conditions were a guarantee. I have found this to be untrue. …

Photography

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Published in Gardening, Birding, and Outdoor Adventure

·Jul 5

Practicing Patience

A Blue Jay stopped by today — Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention. ― Paulo Coelho Patience and a Blue Jay Snap, snap, snap. These could be great photos, I thought. But, again, no photo card in the camera. …

Birds

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Published in For Awe

·Jul 2

For Awe Highlights — June

Awe-Filled and Awe-Inducing Stories and Poems — For true happiness and better physical and mental health, make way for awe. In the vastness of the universe, the opportunities for finding awe are unlimited. Sharing our experiences of awe increases the impact it has on us and further connects us for the greater good. …

Awe

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Jun 30

Is It Ducks or Rocks?

Spring Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Nature Art” — All your rocks in a row? Someone lined up rocks, the entire length of this log, leading right to the lake! It made me think of the old saying, get all your ducks in a row. I thought this saying was only in reference to the formation of traveling ducks. I found out from Michael Pollick…

Photography

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Published in For Awe

·Jun 30

Turtle Trail

Watching with wonder There was a turtle in my photo-a-day photo challenge this week. After I submitted that story, I wondered more about the turtle. I thought maybe it was traveling a trail to a nest. It would be interesting to see the eggs and the babies when they hatch. …

Awe

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Published in Six Word Photo Story Challenge

·Jun 29