14 Replies to “Thankfulness”

  1. Monica Graff – United States – After two decades of editing scholarly monographs for university presses, I decided to put down my red pen and pick up a black one. It's a lot more fun! Some of my musings have been published on various websites and in two anthologies.
    wrdngrdn says:

    Indeed!

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  6. beebeesworld – I have a degree in public history research. I love writing, photography, cooking, teaching, nature studies. I'm a mom and grandmom, an "old hippie".
    beebeesworld says:

    so true-looking at the simple beauty of a winter forest helps us realize we are small, but can do big things beebeesworld

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  7. I love the soft exposure, light and textures in this and of course the message. Nicely done.

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  8. inkpaintwords – A feminist writer and artist with a penchant for all things French, living in Washington DC. My love of language led me, indirectly, to my pleasure in gardening, drawing and watercolor. It began with a book, a collection of New Yorker garden columns by Katherine White, wife of its founding editor E.B.White. Her enthusiastic appraisal of the literary merit of various garden catalogs led me to collect and keep her favorites as well as to hoard with them some more recently-emerged seed, bulb and seed catalogs. The beautiful catalogs inspired me to little by little turn our entire front lawn (our home had a wooded ravine close behind) into a garden. That grew into a lovely site with two simple arches, a gliding bench on a little sitting patio and modest slate paths winding through beds of shade lovers and whatever plants supposedly in need of full sun that I could manage to coax into colorful healthy bloom. A curiosity about color and color theory emerged as I became keenly interested in impressionist painters; that interest merged in some way with my urge to garden. I acquired more than one book about Monet’s garden and gardens of other impressionist painters, both French and American. One day I picked up a magazine for painters, and found inside an article about a painter I’d known. Among examples of her splendid watercolor paintings was her watercolor of her garden at that time. Suddenly I could think of nothing more exciting than painting my garden. I enrolled in her watercolor class in The Art League in Alexandria, VA. The influence that the collection of Katherine White’s columns about the literary merits of certain garden catalogs has had on my life has come full now. Ink, Paint & Words combines what has become an obsession with drawing and watercolor with my passion for language. Yes, I still garden. A table full of blooming potted plants sits on my apartment patio, backed by an ivy covered fence with park trees behind. My patio, and my larger environment of Washington DC, together provides wonderful vistas for drawing and painting. For a number of years annual trips to France gave me and my companions extravagantly colorful panoramas and charming tableaux for brush and pen. And yes, now I’ve painted in Monet’s gardens several times. But that, as they say, is another story.
    inkpaintwords says:

    Lovely. We should remember to be grateful every day.

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  10. Tanveer Rauf – Pakistan – A woman passionate about blogging, sharing and wish sincerely to spread love n harmony among the people of the global village. Request humbly , one and all, to come closer by heart and soul to eliminate the ill feelings related to color, cast, religion. The negativity is polluting the mother nature :(
    Tanveer Rauf says:

    Awesome. Every season has its own charm and beauty

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  13. Louis – Man of leisure! Particular interests: Photography, gardening, reading - especially historical fiction - and the arts in general. I enjoy quiet rather than noise; shade rather than sun. We (my wife and I, the children having long since pursued their various paths) live on the edge of a small village, next to a sheep farm. Our favourite holiday retreat is the Isles of Scilly.
    Louis says:

    Subtle shades – beautiful.

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  14. Definitely!!
    Nature is beautiful and should be thankful for it, not destroying it.
    Like your blog. Love its simple, yet deep, beauty!!

    Sincerely,
    Daniela

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