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An imperturbable demeanor comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune and misfortune at their own private pace like a clock during a thunderstorm.—Robert Louis Stevenson

Month: December 2020

WE’D LIKE TO SAY HELLO-GOODBYE

December 31, 2020January 1, 2021 janpriddyoregon2 Comments

How does the world begin?

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6 WORDS about the awful year

December 30, 2020January 6, 2021 janpriddyoregon6 Comments

Six are not enough to explain.

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BOXING DAY

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 janpriddyoregon3 Comments

It's been a year.

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NORMAL

December 25, 2020January 21, 2021 janpriddyoregon9 Comments

We look ahead to something new and different.

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Posted in CURRENT EVENTS, FAMILY

BEGGING GULL

December 21, 2020December 28, 2020 janpriddyoregon2 Comments

Food becomes more critical to care in winter.

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

December 18, 2020December 20, 2020 janpriddyoregon6 Comments

It is brave to admit what you need, but sometimes you don't even need to ask.

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“Art is the big yes.”

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 janpriddyoregon3 Comments

Art? Yes, please, and grateful to have it stirring the coals

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Hotchi-witchi*

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 janpriddyoregon11 Comments

We all deserve something sweet.

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MISTAKES

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 janpriddyoregon9 Comments

Recovery in real time.

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Posted in WRITINGTagged making mistakes, novel

from REBECCA SOLNIT

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 janpriddyoregon5 Comments

My favorite essayist speaks out in The Guardian.

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Posted in CURRENT EVENTSTagged empathy, morality, Rebecca Solnit

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Jan Priddy

My Blogger site had over 250k reads when I closed it, but here I am again.

After 40 years of teaching, mostly in public schools, I walk the beach each day. My writing has earned an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, Arts & Letters fellowship, Soapstone residency, Pushcart nomination, and publication in journals such as Brevity and the Brevity blog, The MacGuffin, CALYX, Liminal Stories, Work Magazine, Raven Chronicles, Ink Filled Page, The Humanist, and North American Review. An MFA graduate from Pacific University, I live and write in the NW corner of my home state of Oregon.

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