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  • Sunshine (not turpentine) and dandelion wine

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    Posted on October 6th, 2008sherryPhotography

    I was doin’ pretty fine around my own particular Old Kentucky Home late yesterday but all I shot was these photos.

    Time SOLves everyting

    If I could save time in a wineglass...

    Sunshine, paper clips, and rainbows

    A book of verses underneath a bough / a loaf of bread etc.

    A book of verses underneath a bough / a loaf of bread etc.

    Only in this case, it happens to be William Stafford’s Writing the Australian Crawl, which does have some verses in it. (BTW, Robert Peake on Writing the Australian Crawl)

    And the wine is Barefoot merlot, which I recommend as a good cheap red. (I sort of suspect that dandelions would make a whitish wine.)

    You may note that everything outside the window looks pretty brown and shabby. Some of it is needle fall from the pine, but we haven’t mowed the grass for weeks. No rain, no growth.

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2 Responses to “Sunshine (not turpentine) and dandelion wine”

  1. That book, and You Must Revise Your Life, convinced me I wanted to write as much as any craft book. (Down in My Heart is a fine, fine book, too) It’s awesome to see his name. What a great poet and person, truly a man of peace.

  2. Perhaps appropriate that the sun and the glass have conspired to make a halo, eh Jack? I agree that Stafford was a man of peace and a great poet.

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