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Thoughts © 2009 – Jamie Lynn Waters Sitting here glancing out the window, I see a cow in the field. I watch the lonely cow grazing in the meadow, Chomping away at the freshly grown grass. It is not quite a gloomy day, yet not sunny either. I wonder what that cow’s thinking and what [...]

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” Cicero

When we go looking for our characters, sometimes, they find us…Think back to the older West…before it was one…before it was Hollywood and the conservation states…The buildings had character, the people were characters, and the critters were eaten without the worry of the FDA…Plan your plot, choose your characters, seek your setting…Post it here, or [...]

“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” John Keats

Sometimes, pictures are not enough to purge a story from the depths of your mind…you have to go beyond the pictures themselves and ask questions about the subjects or objects within the pictures. You may see some simple penguins…simple in a picture, but when you imagination takes over, they are waiting in line for a [...]