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Nighthawks – AW September Blog Chain

Posted on September 24, 2011
in Writing
by Cath

This month’s prompt: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words Write a brief response to this picture: Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper. Do they know how lucky they are? Another step towards the light. Any closer and my nose will be pressing against the glass and the blond-haired behatted soda jerk will be shaking his [...]

On Courage

Posted on June 2, 2007
in Writing
by Cath

We’re into the AbsoluteWrite Blogchain #9 and I’m following Virginia Lee, who kicked us off with a post about quitting jobs. It got me thinking about the nature of courage. If someone asked me to define a courageous act, I’d probably tell them about a firefighter going into a burning [...]

Absolute Write blogchain #8

Posted on February 12, 2007
in Writing
by Cath

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the [...]