Archive for the “100 words” category

100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About… Updated!

by Pippa on October 3, 2010

About a year and a half ago I posted a list of 100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About…. I wrote the list when I was in a more active phase of my DIY Masters, a very slowly …

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by Pippa on September 14, 2007

Slice up fruit. It has the familiarity of a lover on Saturday mornings.

Add the muesli that you made by hand, roasted, toasted, made the most of: oats, triticale, pepita, sunflower, sesame, coconut, almond and cinnamon (call it kaneli, Suomi …

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by Pippa on September 3, 2007

I could, today, have turned catlike as I lay in the sun. One sip of tea, a turn of a page and then stretch, inch the blanket back into the light and away from the shade. Tending towards the feline, …

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by Pippa on September 5, 2006

Australian voices singing and bantering.  Indie kids in dead men’s pants.

Finally she feels at home.

Maybe it’s the Jade Monkey, not green anymore but black.  He once said “I used to see you all the time at the Jade …

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by Pippa on September 4, 2006

Her morning pages have been forgotten for a while. There has to be some type of daily practise maintained whether that be yoga, meditation, painting or 100 words of the third-person singular.

Her walls are pretty much bare. At the …

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by Pippa on September 3, 2006

On the way back into Helsinki from visiting friends she bought green woollen yarn and needles to knit with.  She always knits scarves at the start of the knitting season.  It’s a good way to remember how to knit.

Moss …

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by Pippa on September 2, 2006

In the cemetery near her new house, beside the beach, she took photos of squirrels. They were little and red-brown, with bushy tails like bottlebrush flowers. Her expectations were exceeded when one sat on its hind legs and gnawed on …

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by Pippa on August 30, 2006

Life shifts and buckles.

She gets sweet emails and spicy sms from halfway across the globe. She notices that her writing triggers responses, recollections and emotional regurgitations. She thinks about painting something bright on a big piece of plywood, but …

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by Pippa on August 29, 2006

She found a list of the fun stuff they did. Thought about destroying it, but figured that she might want it later. After all, there will be times when she will need to remember the good things. Though at the …

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