Category: writing
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Vigilante Justice
“Say your prayers, varmint… dead rabbits tell no tales.” -Yosemite Sam I went out on a limb here and chose the word Vigilante for the simple reason that I wanted to illustrate a cartoon vigilante-type man. That being said, any logical or meaningful commentary will be hard to come by. I’m still learning (playing with)…
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Tantrum
-Also Known as Throwing a Wobbly- I did a complete 180 on this one. Initially, I was going to do an illustration of a Treasure Chest. My chosen ‘T’ word at the time was Thesaurus. It was a happy idea. The chest was full of words and jewels (which I may use later)… and my…
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Me and My Shadow(s)
So… my S word today is Shadow. I thought of the idea for this image after creating the laughing girl in my post… The Best Medicine. So, when S rolled around, I had to do it. I looked into Jung’s idea on the shadow – as it refers to “the unconscious aspects of the personality…
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Within Reach
My ‘R’ word turned out to be a little tougher than I anticipated. The image not so much… but in figuring out what thoughts I might have on the word REACH. There are a ton of cheesy quotes I thought about using, but reaching for the moon or the stars is so common and overused.…
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The Oscar Party
I was caught off guard (totally unprepared!) when Ned plucked me out of bed one morning and forced me to go on a ‘surprise’ vacation. We flew to the west coast and spent the first few days lounging in the sand… staring at the Ocean. We shucked Oysters while we were there, saw an Octopus,…
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Extra! Extra!
Read all about it! Miss Abernathy had always been near and dear to us before she started that damn Newsletter of hers. She called it… “Nan’s Neighborhood News.” At first, we all thought it was sweet. Nancy would write about things like who won the three-legged race at the fair, what was on sale at…
a sprinkle of faith 