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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

I got my poetry postcard (yay!!!!) and it inspired me to make art. Yesterday I took some big newsprint sheets onto the patio with some pastels and made some sketches. Today I watercolored some postcards which I will send out hopefully, eventually, with some poems on them.

In the last two weeks we had a house full of guests and three children with pneumonia. Now it is quiet and I'm remembering what it's like to have time to think and create. Now I'm longing to write and wondering if I have anything to say. What can I pay attention to? What is calling to me?

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Sarah Teresa Cook's avatar

"It almost seems as if my scattered attention is the closest thing to prayer."

I love this!

Also, Simone Weil's journals are the reason I have the word, "ruthless," tattooed on my knuckles. (That's probably something I should write about soon...)

You are an inspiration, as always.

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