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Underwater Conversation
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their...
Shannon
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Summer Postcard '24
1. Riding a Rogue Wave This summer, in Philly, I fell in with the wrong sort. Criminals, nearly a dozen of them, rogues and scoundrels...
Shannon
Aug 25, 20244 min read
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Wildlife Encounters
Part One: Summer Postcard Up in Vermont this summer, at the foot of Ascutney, in the forest where I always go, I arrived to the cabin...
Shannon
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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The Summer We Didn't Die
That year, that summer, that vacation we played out there in the cottonwood-- we were young; we had to be brave. Far out on those limbs...
Shannon
Aug 22, 20224 min read
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Hermit Lifestyles and Other Thoughts
Possibility Here's a poem by a favorite hermit role model. She DWELLS where I have thus far only managed day trips. Maybe I'll move there...
Shannon
Dec 30, 20213 min read
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Philadelphian
The summer was so much away that I nearly forgot who or where I was. Now, things are settling back into place in Philadelphia. Kids back...
Shannon
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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The Wages of Dy(e)ing Is Love
What I am trying to get across is that material is a means of communication. That listening to it, not dominating it makes us truly...
Shannon
Dec 31, 20201 min read
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Summer Postcard 2020
This summer--despite everything--I was able to again abscond with my paints and step into the quiet. This time for solitude and...
Shannon
Aug 25, 20202 min read
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A Few Disparate Threads
It is a relief to make a different kind of sense--visual sense. One must think, of course, but it is an entirely different kind of...
Shannon
Apr 13, 20201 min read
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Shannon
Dec 10, 20191 min read
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Spark in the Dark
There's somethin' happenin' somewhere Baby, I just know there is. --The Boss Courting some new creative mentors here. Prominently, the...
Shannon
Oct 29, 20191 min read
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Summer Postcard(s)
Greetings from another Summer of Adventure!
Shannon
Aug 26, 20191 min read
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