Sep 18, 2025

days

 



mundane days. busy days. life filled days. quiet days. noisy days. peaceful days. chaotic days. winter days. barren days. grey days. color-filled days. routine days. up-in-air days. endless loop days. regular days. irregular days. sunshine days. thunderstormy days. empty days. full-to-the-brim days. christmas days. day-after days. sad days. joyful days. dreaded days. anticipation days. nonsense days. sensible days. silly days. serious days. adventure days. normal days.


all-in-a-day days.

 


just write. just sit down and stare that cursor into submission and let the words come out of your fingertips. don’t worry about grammar, punctuation, phrases that make sense, paragraphs that go on and on and on without any rhyme or reason.


just write. don’t be like anyone else, don’t let anyone else’s voice enter your head, don’t let anyone else’s style mess with what you want to say or how you say it. don’t worry if what you write doesn’t make sense to anyone else but you . . .if it makes sense to you, then you’ve accomplished what you set out to do. don’t worry if you offend someone out there in the world. don’t worry about stepping on some random person’s toes . . . they’re your words and no one else’s, your opinions and no one else’s. others can’t think for you so don’t worry about what others think of you.


just write for the art that lives inside your head, of getting out of your head all those whirling dervishes of thoughts and thinks, of memories and stories that are banging at the door of your mind, desperate to get out and live in the world. write to make sense of everything around you, things that you want to remember, things that you want to forget, to organize the chaos and to let the exhausted peace that comes after getting all those words settled and in one place, to let that peace exist inside you.


just write.



Dec 17, 2024






Such a wonderful feeling of freedom, of merry making, of festive-ness. Recipes to perfect before Joe comes home for two weeks in January, of Christmas tree buying, of taking pictures only for me. Lights and Christmas songs, crowds at the bookstores while I look through the cookbook section, the waiting for packages to arrive on the front porch. What a perfect time for all this to happen. 

Nikon Z8, 135mm, ISO 2500, f/1.8, 1/1000 sec.