Tag: nature
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The best season, and here’s why!
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“I’m here to stand up for Autumn!” That was my declaration at the beginning of my winning Table Topics Speech in Toastmasters one week. First, a little background: Toastmasters is a world-wide program for learning how to do public speaking. And I did. Before I joined the in-house club at…
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A year in images that speak
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Writers notice a lot, and sometimes that manifests in photographs instead of words I know several writers who are also photographers, using another medium to convey ideas that have fascinated us, enchanted us, haunted us. We record images that inspire, remind us of something we want to use in our…
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The colour brown: boring or eloquent?
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Brown is a September colour; it always makes me think of ‘back-to-school’, of walnuts and chestnuts on the ground, the bindings of books, tree leaves changing to tan and rust and fluttering off branches to dance on the wind. I don’t think brown gets enough respect. While it’s not flashy,…