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Your work has such a strong spoken-word brilliance to it! I had to read this micro out loud. The rhythm was so delightful.

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You are such a great describer! 💜

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I'm going to quote you quoting your grandmother in my book.

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I would love that! If you want to quote her directly, her name is Barbara Webster. It was written in “The Color of the Country,” a Pennsylvania newspaper column she wrote for a few years in the 1960s. Either way, we are both honored.

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Thank you, Amie. I'll keep you posted.

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Just beautiful!!! I especially appreciate your post today as I'm beginning to work on a new series of paintings of rooms... the things we surround ourselves with tell stories don't they? And we create these stories...

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Gorgeous! I love the ideas in this one. Making room for one's self, reading old newspapers, remembering things said.

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There are, ah, very old journals, Jillian...

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Really? I think I missed that in the post. Did you get your grandmother's words from her journal?

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Oooo looking forward!

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You didn’t miss it--some gems from the journal will probably appear in a future micro! (Her quote was from one of the columns she wrote for a PA newspaper).

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I imagine some questions are answered and others are raised.

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And sometimes, those that went unanswered for decades begin to materialize the deeper I go.

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Beautiful. It's as though she was writing TO you. This is why we write.

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Well said!

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For this is what happens: you belong to it, not it to you.” love this

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