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Picking up my ink pencils in July 

Tilted Paper Boat

(info from the internet)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. 8th

Born: July 15, 1606. Died: October 4, 1669

ink pencil and wet brush

Welcome to Art For Fun Friday #19

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Bon Appetit

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

Face off Friday

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Haiku My Heart

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Friday Writings #37.Stay Happy And Alive.

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Growing up there were always dogs in our family. But as an adult I never wanted pets. I always tell people: children and plants I am happiest with.

So yesterday i went to the NALIS library in Port of Spain to read my book 'The Naughty Angel' and conduct a haiku workshop with a group of children, who were happy to listen and to participate. There was joy shared.

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masked faces listen -

a story read aloud to

eager ears and minds

its question time now -

hands shoot up everyone wants

to give an answer

let's write a haiku -

Enough words on the white board

poems abstracted

© gillena cox 2022

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ENJOY THE MUSIC: Machel Montano - Mr Fete

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BOOKSHELF

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Dry season, the sun glints a brilliant hue, just what the carnival revellers would need, to sparkle their beads and sequins and add enough fantasy to their plumes. On the flip side of these sunlight hours, its about quiet time sitting in the shade, hearing the banana fronds ripples in the passing gusts, Its about tea, whether hot or iced and a good book.
one pot of tea
sips of intrigue
in the garden
reading
© gillena cox 2017


Blog hopping today at

Monday Mellow Yellows familiar
sea rock

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Carpe Diem
#1146 Tea Ceremony


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Monday Mosiac







Revisit
6FEB2015
6FEB2013
6FEB2012

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twittering birds
a fish scale morning moon
her silent stare
the pages of a book turned
a corner of the garden
© gillena cox 2017

blog hopping today at

Heronswood summer flower

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Summer life

1985

a forest of words -
the magic of sunny days
in children stories
© gillena cox 2016

Revisit
The Little Seed And His Brother 2015
Sunday Lime 09
Sunday Savvy 09

Happy to say my 2nd book for children (targeted at girls 2-10) published through Authorhouse, is now live.
ISBN: 978-1-5246-6220-2(sc)
ISBN: 978-1-5246-6219-6(e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016917833

Sunday Smiles


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #09 in the series The Sunday Standard How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below




Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #327

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['Shinny Moon Night Sky Wallpaper' from google dot com]


in moon lit shadows
my walk through strange foreign lands -
storybook pages
© gillena cox 2016


Revisit
story book pages 2015
Sunday Savvy #88
Sunday Lime 1

Sunday Smiles



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #88 in the series Sunday Lime How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below






Written for Sanaa's Prompt Nights – Let us walk together in the Moonlight – [18]



And linking also to


Poetry Pantry 306

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image from google dot com

coolness outside
good for story book readings -
a hazy moon

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hazy moon -
my grand daughter's
little pointing finger
© gillena cox 2015


Revisit
moon 2011
moon 2010
moon 2009



Goodbye Month of May. The rain teased us a little this week. It was nice to see damp soil once more. The Met Office declared the start of the Rainy Season here, but we are still far from torrents. Sunday Smiles




How is your Sunday going? Today is #35 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below




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Poetry Pantry 254

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by the shore
discarded lovers
broken shells
--JRB

sounds across many oceans
listen! through flipped pages
--gillena cox


47 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS



by the shore
discarded lovers
broken shells
sounds across many oceans
listen! through flipped pages


Linking today to Carpe Diem Tan Renga: “#319 - Shell” AND Haiku My Heart
AND Orange You Glad It’s Friday #63

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Linking today to Six Word Saturday AND Back Linking to Paint Party Friday

...its comfortably warm this morning, not yet too hot, and sunny; i'm reading 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel (a book club recommended novel - which means other persons in my book club are also reading this) i've gotten through more than half, my favourite quote so far is from [page 6]
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."
...so i decide to sit outside this morning, (i'm an 'empty nester' so my time structuring is very much mine) Wow! my blessed sixties; my son and daughter, out on their own; my grand daughter will be one year old next month; i'm truly and humbly thankful for today, and yesterdays.

on the front steps ants crawling
--gillena cox

The Market Stall

Oil on canvas; Still Life with Fruit 1955; Sybil Atteck (1911 -1975)
image from google

Yesterday, our book club; attended an excellent dramatic presentation of The Stolen Cascadura written by Beverly - Ann Scott at the St James Library; as part of this year's Nalis 'One Book Community' reading festival. Well Done to the 'Dramatik Expressions' from San Fernando Library

market stall -
the unreal greeness
of plastic pears
--gillena cox

Picasso

...a portrait of Picasso’s muse, the painter and photographer Dora Maar, famous for her love affair with the Málaga artist image from google...in the news Spanish Banking Crisis


past midnight ..
lost in the realm of
an author's words
--gillena cox

Bookmarked

Hoarding Chocolates 12

internet image from...

"Ask them to bring us hot chocolate, Augustín, and let us sit down and converse like decent people," this officer of the Church proposed. And so they did...[Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune]

between pages
fifty six/fifty seven-
placing a book mark
--gillena cox


Historic Note‘Chocolate’, as a drink made with boiling milk, is a British recipe from the 1690′s. It came from adding milk when Sir Hans Sloane, (of ‘Sloane Square’ in London) on a trip to Jamaica in the 1690s found the drink was too bitter made with just water and so asked instead for it to be made with hot milk. He brought this recipe back to London where it rapidly spread.




Chocolate for two
this Spring morning
swett taste
--Angelika Kolompar