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Tag: #Writing

Saving Graces: Reading, and Compassion

Virginia Herrick February 14, 2019 February 18, 2019Connection, Currents, Healing & Transformation, Peacemaking, Quakerism, Writing & Editing #connection, #Writing, integrity, peace, transformation 2

It’s a day for lovers, so I’m republishing a post from New Year’s Eve, which various technical difficulties prevented from distribution at the time. Want to improve…

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Right-brain editing. Wait. What?

Virginia Herrick August 30, 2018 September 14, 2018Connection, Musings, Writing & Editing #Editing, #Leftbrain, #Northwest Editors Guild, #Rightbrain, #Writing 2

That your left brain does not know what the right is doing is not news. If the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing (observe…

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Mary Oliver, and Peonies

Virginia Herrick April 29, 2018 January 23, 2019Connection, Musings, Poetry, Writing & Editing #MaryOliver, #nature, #poetry month, #Writing, poetry 0

In honor of National Poetry month, I am dedicating my April blog to the tender and beautiful poem “Peonies,”* by Mary Oliver. As it happens, my own…

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Ursula K. Le Guin – The Ending Place

Virginia Herrick January 25, 2018 January 26, 2018Death & Loss, Musings, Writing & Editing #Death #Grieving, #Fantasy, #Ursula K. Le Guin, #Writing 2

The words of the unquenchable, incomparable Ursula K. Le Guin are among my most treasured possessions. Yes, her books. Of course her books — they occupy two…

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Aunt Emmy’s Recipe

Virginia Herrick May 19, 2017 June 7, 2017Aikido, Musings, Writing & Editing #connection, #honesty, #Writing, Aikido, humor 0

What does pie have to do with learning to write, or practicing Aikido? Welcome to my brain. And read on — you might be surprised! As an…

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What’s in a Name?

Virginia Herrick July 13, 2016 December 2, 2016Musings #Fantasy, #Magic, #Writing 2

Yes! Virginia is my way of saying “yes” to myself and to you – my friends and readers. Yes, I can connect with you through the written…

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