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Letters From a Life: Mmmm Good
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Thursday, April 1, 2010. At our Gainesville Writers Alliance (yes, WAG) meeting last Sunday, Bev Browning. Talked to us about ghost-writing and her concept of shimmer. How to craft a sentence to manipulate response and amplify meaning.". Sounds can create shimmer in a sensual experience, then handed out Belgian chocolates and asked us to add layers to this story:. Bev gave us chocolate. We ate it. This is my shimmer:. She holds a chocolate. And makes me wait.
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Letters From a Life: My Life is a Sitcom?
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. My Life is a Sitcom? Last night I dreamed I'd been acting in a sitcom that had just been canceled and we were at a wrap party. I was talking to a small, dark woman with long black hair, and wondered aloud if our Nielsen numbers were really bad enough to cancel us. Sure, some people out there found the show too edgy, but weren't there enough who appreciated our sophisticated humor to keep the sponsors happy? Posted by Mary Bast.
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Letters From a Life: Land of the Birds
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Saturday, June 11, 2011. Land of the Birds. Though tempted by Tracking Orangutans in Borneo. More about this later), I was most intrigued by an archeology/anthropology expedition to Atiu Island. Land of the birds) in the Cooks. My friend Nikki joined me. The following and some future posts will cover highlights from the journal I kept during the trip. Tuesday, July 5, 1988:. Dr Sinoto and Dr. Stephenson. Nikki left front, Mary middle front. In contrast, we ...
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Letters From a Life: French Lesson
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Friday, February 5, 2010. He writes, sought. Nothingness that is truth. Then translate this, I beg,. Une voix, du passé longue évocation,. Est-ce la mienne prête à l’incantation? Is quicker than the eye. More charming, say I,. And now must bid good-bye. From de Montaigne,. Une personne vous manqu é. Et le monde est d. A person lacks you and. When you miss someone,. The world is a smaller place. Posted by Mary Bast. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Letters From a Life: Autobiography Passed Through the Sieve of Maya
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Autobiography Passed Through the Sieve of Maya. Most postings previously appearing in this blog are now included in my collection. Autobiography Passed Through the Sieve of Maya. Vedanta Society of Southern California. Posted by Mary Bast. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Currently Editor-in-Chief of Bacopa Literary Review. Autobiography Passed Through the Sieve of Maya. Unmuzzled, Unfettered: Found Poems.
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Letters From a Life: The Tao of Equus
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. The Tao of Equus. I was not one of those young girls who dreamed of horses. In fact I had my first encounter with one of our equine friends when I was 18 years old and attending Simmons College in Boston. Horse Portrait: Spirit Animal. My recent experience with horses has been more thrilling, as I've learned how two clients use their horses for equine-assisted counseling and coaching. I've learned that even seasoned artists rare...
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Letters From a Life: Mary Remix
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Saturday, May 4, 2013. Painting "Lake Rosa" and erasure. Poem from page 152 of The Hours. During April 2013, I was one of 85 poets writing a found poem a day, each from one the 85 Pulitzer Prize-winning works of fiction for Pulitzer Remix, a National Poetry Month initiative sponsored by the Found Poetry Review. To order the book of my thirty poems, click here. One of my fellow poets, Vicki Hudson. Asked us to write about our experience:. Weaves in and out o...
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Letters From a Life: Unfamiliar Territory
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Letters From a Life. Flash Memoir by Mary Bast. Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Continued from Land of the Birds. Thursday, July 7, 1988. Nikki and I awoke early in Rarotonga yesterday from anxious dreams about being in unfamiliar territory. After two weeks on the island of Atiu. Sarong), two yards of cloth to wrap around the body in various ways. We chose the same dark blue and green on white pattern. I'm now sitting in bed in my small room in Atiu at 5:15 am The canopy is made of white lace, and a gentle cr...
