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Photo Challenge: Reflecting

It’s the job of a hero to stand a strong wind, invincible against a dark sky, giving us pause to...
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Photo Challenge: Wanderlust

It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas behind the shade of an eyelash,...
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Photo Challenge: Surprise

Dawdling through chores, then a dousing in the shower And rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror for...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Negotiating; Not Fighting.

It was last spring when this ancient donkey came to the farm. In the beginning, we thought she might not...
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Photo Challenge: Relax

Memoir Babies not embraced turn into sullen kids not good enough, graduating to insecure young adults, lost in bad decisions...
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The Fine Art of Cantankery.

I've had a hard time acting my age. That's not it, exactly. It's more like I'm straddling the Grand Canyon...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun

The secret he bleated was repeated with a neigh and a bray: hooray for today! ... *apologies to anyone looking...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Narrow

He takes a narrow view of rain and a chill wind. He takes a narrow view of sharp voices, quick...
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A Lesson about Squeamishness and a Donkey.

Look, it's a selfie of me mucking last week. I like to get an early start in the summer. Over...
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Weekly Photo & Poem Challenge: Spare

She’s a spare donkey, no longer of use since the cattle were sold, since the rancher moved to town. She’s...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

  “Curiosity is a sign of courage,” my trainer said, hushing my correction. Enthusiastic praise for my colt chasing her...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth

Proclaim the ordinary for its singular wonder.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance

Ay yi yi yi...Tequila Spring on the Prairie. For Edgar Rice Burro it's all about a longear tango of arc...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering

Gathering. Well, it's one of my favorite things. A sweet meditative time with the good company of Edgar Rice Burro...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: TRIO

"You knew we were dedicated to fighting the forces of evil when you hired us." This trio of highly motivated...
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On Being an Old Gray Mare With Chronic Lameness

It's a shooting pain. Usually my foot is brick-tight and I can't bend my toes. When I do manage to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid

A fence is a grid of separation. It's used to keep some of us inside and to keep others of...
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