December Bloom ∞ Looking Forward, Looking Back
December Bloom, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, December 24th, 2019, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. On Winter Solstice, after two years of dormancy and a flirt with death,...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day With Shiki
haiku by Shiki (1867 – 1902) haiku by Shiki (1867 – 1902) We sojourned to The Book House in Dinkytown last weekend to pick up A House By Itself, a small book Liz had put on hold after we...
View ArticleThe Bardo
The Bardo, photograph by Debra J. Hobbs, © QuoinMonkey, August 15th, 2020. I meant to do better. To take more Polaroids, roll more clay, shut up and write. But 2020 had other ideas. For my birthday in...
View ArticleHave You Enjoyed Your Life?
Georgia, Haiku, Bones, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, on the Partial Solar Eclipse, April 30th, 2022, photo © 2022 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Landscape – The Osprey The walk along...
View ArticleNot Knowing
I didn’t know what I wanted to write about this afternoon. It’s Friday, the day I set aside for creative work. I’ve been lax in completing any kind of art. I’ve been culling, gathering, harvesting....
View ArticleRoots
SpiralBound, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, on the Day of My Solar Return, July 22, 2022, photo © 2022 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Roots that bind. Binding roots. I came home from work...
View ArticleWhen I Move
I was writing in my dreams last night. I kept waking up in the middle of writing. One was about moving. When you move you go through every shred of material possession that you own. Laptops of...
View ArticleMy Grandmother
Mourning on the Beach, St. Joe Beach, Florida, iPhone Photo, January 19, 2023, photo © 2023 by Amy S. Gabriel. All rights reserved. Thinking of my Grandma, who left us 24 years ago today. Hard to...
View ArticleListening
Ice & Turf, Landing in Minnesota, iPhone Photo, February 16th, 2023, photo © 2023 by Debra J. Hobbs. All rights reserved. Sun & Surf, St. Joe Beach, Florida, iPhone Photo, February 8h, 2023,...
View ArticleBones Of The Sea
Curly-Q, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, February 18th, 2023, photo © 2023 by Liz Schultz. All rights reserved. Liz unpacks the spiral shells out of a plastic peroxide bottle with the top slit...
View ArticlePelican Moon
Pelican, Windmark Beach, Florida Panhandle, iPhone Shots, February 2023, photo ©DebraJHobbs2023☽. All rights reserved. The new moon peaks in Aries this morning. Woke up heavy, but airborne. Like the...
View ArticleWRITING TOPIC — TELL ME ABOUT MARCH
M. Elisabeth Norton (American, active 1890s), The Bookman: March, 1895. Lithograph, Portland Art Museum, Gift of Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler. March is a month of transition in the Midwest....
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