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    She Who Guides My Stars

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    “She Who Guides My Stars” Night Vision Journal by Sandy Brown Jensen 11-28-15   SHE WHO GUIDES MY STARS By Sandy Brown Jensen I am home with a bad cold today. I am reading Sidewalk Oracle by my favorite dream guide, Robert Moss. I fell asleep for a while. Images floated through my mind, but nothing stuck except when I awoke, the name or word Gaia was with me, the name for Planet Earth. Still in…

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    Jitterbug Dancer

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    “Jitterbug Dancer” Gel pen on black sketch book paper by Cheryl Renee Long   JITTERBUG DANCER By Cheryl Renee Long Before I could talk, even before I could walk, my young mother would scoop me up and dance with me in her arms. By 3 years old, I was her tiny dance partner. I knew all the big band sounds, the crooners and the words to the popular songs of the 1930s and 1940’s. I didn’t learn to…

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    (I’ll Row My Boat to China) When Pigs Can Fly

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    (I’ll Row My Boat to China) When Pigs Can Fly By Sandy Brown Jensen There are lots of ways to find inspiration for a practice of daily creation. I turn every morning to my @DS106Daily Create Twitter site to see what crazy idea is next on offer. Today it was: When people are opposed to doing something it is common in some parts of the United States to say “when pigs fly” Draw a picture of a pig…

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    How to Get Started With Your Mysterious Night Vision Journal

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    NOTE:  Cheryl Renee Long’s “Color Your World” Colored Pencil Sketching class begins Jan. 4, 2016 and is only $50. Click here to view the sales page and/or to enroll: https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/11010/about NEW CLASS ANNOUNCED In late February 2016, Cheryl Renee Long and the hard working behind-the-scenes crew at Toucan Create! will introduce a brand new online class on how to loosen up your…

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    How to Start Your Mysterious Night Vision Journal

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    How to Start Your Mysterious Night Vision Journal

    [learn_more caption=”Color Your World Colored Pencil Sketching Class starts Jan. 4″] [box] Cheryl’s “Color Your World” Colored Pencil Sketching class begins Jan. 4, 2016 and is only $50. Click here to view the sales page and/or to enroll: https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/11010/about[/box][/learn_more] In late February 2016, Cheryl Renee Long and the hard working behind-the-scenes crew at Toucan…

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    The Lost Doll

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    The Lost Doll By Sandy Brown Jensen When I was a little girl, I was doll crazy. I dressed my dolls obsessively, and I was lucky enough to have an Aunt Mel who loved to make doll clothes for my girls. I sat them around the picnic table and taught them; and I became a teacher. I invited them to tea parties and cooked for them in my doll kitchen; and I became an avid home cook and dinner party…

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    How to OOZE with Catharine Gill, Professional Artist

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    How to OOZE with Catharine Gill, Professional Artist

    How to OOZE with Catharine Gill, Professional Artist By Cheryl Renee Long I designated 2015 as a year of professional development for myself. Looking for the right workshop, I first attended a major watercolor conference in Seattle. Breakout sessions included demos by 4 prominent artists. I chose Catharine Gill based on the quality of her paintings. She is a landscape painter, and I like her…

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    A Picture of Your Dreams

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    In this post, I talk about drawing dreams, dream mandalas, and the Mysterious Night Vision Field Journal.

    “Tree Woman with Fire Sticks” This image was more of a “waking dream” as I drew what spontaneously appeared in my mind’s eye. That is heart and soul of the Mysterious Night Vision Field Journal experience. Today’s Daily Create is to draw a picture of a place you have been to in your dreams. I think this activity is a good way to introduce a class that Cheryl Long and I are developing to run…

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    Food Groups

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    Originally posted on The Lone Diner:
    Doctors say that the four food groups are protein, fruit, vegetables, and carbs. But I think that the four food groups should be breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Of course, that wouldn’t be all that healthy, depending on what you ate. But if then you included both food groups, the…
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    A cat for Sam

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    I bit of story for a Sat. afternoon. It’s the same character as from The Vase. Don’t know why I put my poor pretend people (a.k.a. ‘characters’) in such sad situations. Maybe Sam and Vicar Celeste need to meet… Sam lay on the rug in front of the hearth, soaking in the heat of the […]
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    Interrupted

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    Once the last of her parishioners shuffled out of the nave and out into the spitting, December rain, Celeste closed the doors and sat down heavily in the nearest pew. Nothing like the Christmas season to swell the church audience, particularly when the children were so darling in their costumes. Irresistible even to the most […]
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    Mangos and Migraines

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    Another bit of the story with our faithful and struggling friends, Sarah and Kurt, the editors of a very strange screen-play. You can catch-up on the story by reading Blackhawks and Bourbon, and Jeeps and Jerks first. “She lived in a mango tree?” Kurt shuffled the papers. “I thought it was a peach tree back in […]
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    Freebies, gotta love ’em

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    Hey literary-type folks out there in cyberspace, just wanted to let you know I’ve put Matchmaker of Magics on a Kindle freebie deal starting today, and running through the 15th. Warning. If you do download the book and begin to read it, you might not be able to put it down since it’s so smashingly […]
  14. mfieldswriter

    Memories

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    A little flash for Mondays Finish the Story–but it’s a continuation of the story of our dear vicar, Celeste. You can find the beginning of her story here, and here. The cemetery spread along the area known as Devils Abode, but Celeste couldn’t understand why–the land around the graveyard was peaceful, lovely even. Perhaps they’d named it after a […]
  15. mfieldswriter

    Sick in Maine

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    You know how it goes. You plan for your vacation months in advance. Buy your tickets. Count the days of drudgery left until the joy begins. Telling everyone who will listen about your upcoming escape to [insert place of choice]. Then, the day before you leave your neighbor/friend/boss comes right up to you and says, […]
  16. mfieldswriter

    The Work Begins

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    I’ve always wondered what the process of publishing a book with a press would be like–to work with a professional editor, to proof copies, to stay up late eating bon-bons and drinking straight bourbon because you need the fuel to get your baby to the presses. Well, I’m excited to say, I’m going to find […]
  17. mfieldswriter

    Lament

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    “Why?” Tori’s voice was pained, like a long-suffering saint. She flopped down next to me on the sofa. “Why what, honey?” I set my computer aside so I could focus on what she was saying. She’d accused me enough times of loving my screen more than her, and I didn’t want that to be true. Maybe […]
  18. mfieldswriter

    MFTS – Hedge Attack!

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    Originally posted on draliman on life:
    Here is my contribution to Mondays Finish the Story, hosted by Barbara Beacham. This week it is using my opening line! We get around 150 words to finish the story based on an opening sentence (in bold in my story) and a photo. To read the other stories, click…
  19. mfieldswriter

    Better than Bingo

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    The Mayor and the town manager waved as their next victim approached. “Evening, Gladis,” the mayor said, smiling at the heavy-set woman walking across the uncut grass. He’d need to see to that–against city ordinance. “Special night tonight, eh?” Gladis stopped halfway to the door, her face wrinkling in confusion. “I thought it was bingo […]
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    Curious Minds Want to Know

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    [Disclaimer: this post is not about wordcrafting, wordsmithing, writing, authors, fiction or any of the other topics you wait on the edge of your proverbial seats for me to post. Nope. It’s a FOOD post.] I’ve a wealth of gluten-free recipes in my recipe-box that I’ve either modified or made up, and some are even […]
  21. mfieldswriter

    Freebies

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    No, the title is not Frisbees, it’s Freebies. Almost as good. Or, maybe better ’cause Freebies aren’t gonna hit you in the face and break your nose and/or glasses. (My kids don’t have the best aim, and I’m not the best catcher in the world). I’m offering a free copy of Matchmaker of Magics (in […]

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