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Hopping to it . . .

03/27/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Happy Easter!  I'll be hopping away for a week and will be back April 3  to give you the latest on Solace in So Many Words contributors and other news. In the meantime, if you have something you'd like to share here, please send it to me at weighedwords at gmail.com Peace, love, and solace … [Read more...]

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Glimpse of solace: Oh my world

03/05/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hey there. I escaped with my camera this week and got lost in photography, which is very easy to do when you are working on something abstract.  Here's what I came up.  Peace, love, and solace     … [Read more...]

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Mourning in Kalamazoo and other news

02/26/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hello. I missed writing to you. But a project came up that needed my immediate attention. Besides, I haven’t much to report. To tell you the truth, socializing has taken up a lot of time recently. I can always talk myself into going out because human relations are what count in this lifetime. So why say no to a nice lunch? No doubt, you heard about the shooting in Kalamazoo, MI. Elizabeth Kerlikowske (who wrote two poems in Solace in So Many Words) has written about the … [Read more...]

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Glimpse of solace: New York City weekend

02/04/2016 By Ellen Beals 6 Comments

I got to spend a few days in New York City this past weekend. I stayed quite close to Central Park.  I thought of Holden Caulfield, Holly Golightly, and Macaulay Culkin. The weather was springlike. It was great to walk all over Midtown with my camera. Here's what I got.       … [Read more...]

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Snow tracks and silhouette: Laura Rodley

01/27/2016 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

I didn’t know exactly what to post here when Laura Rodley sent me these photographs. Like Laura, I notice things in the snow and ice.  So I share two of my photos too. Laura Rodley is a writer whose poetry and photos have appeared here many times. Her poem “Resurrection” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and appears in  Pushcart Edition XXXVII; it originally appeared on The NewVerseNews. The NewVerseNews describes itself as presenting "politically … [Read more...]

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