reality

It is often tempting-though less so these days- to think of "reality" as something of a surface, both concealing and transmitting unacknowledged thoughts, feelings and behaviors...not always a truth but a partial truth...  Lisa Thatcher

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a roof over our head

I like that phrase...a roof over our head...and I like all of them...though I don't think they are called idioms.  Idioms seem to be more the structural makings in a language.  These are simply phrases that last a few years...like maybe 25 years then pass away.  We should make a list of them.  Maybe you can start for us.

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these young guys are getting out of hand...I'm finding them everywhere, unsigned, unfinished, just sitting around eating the food, playing video games, etc. etc.  I can't ever remember which I've posted, or put on restriction, or sent outside to leave me alone...

back on the horse again

I must start today by saying that it is cold cold cold, and though the paintings don't seem too stiff they are the only thing that is not...the great lakes are all frozen over except Michigan and who knows maybe this morning it has joined the rest...

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good morning my friend

At last you soul just gets tired of the cold, the piles of snow outside, the sub zero temperatures, and it says lets talk about the spring.  And it imbues that season with the purposive hope of blue skies and warming temperatures, the undulating rhythms and complex feeds...

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ink watercolor  rives bfk 11x15

ink watercolor  rives bfk 11x15

eschew the fineries

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