It Is To Ponder...
A Collection Of Reflections
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PAGE 23 "...The dog didn't run through those thistles to annoy me. Those pleading eyes never left my face as I brushed her out. They seemed to be saying, 'Well, a rabbit went in there. What's a dog to do?'..."
PAGE 58 "...We may only see the Big Dipper as one of many star-lit formations above us, a connect-the-dot picture suspended above our planet, giving no thought to the actuality of each dot being a humongous, pulsating star..."
PAGE 108 "...How can anyone ever know boredom when there is so much to contemplate, investigate, and learn about; things like why clocks run clockwise or why we have to close our eyes when we sneeze? ... Why don't traffic signals light bulbs ever burn out? Can we buy them?..."
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About the Book
While a reporter/photographer for our local newspaper, The Clark County Press, in Neillsville, WI, a shutter of opportunity presented itself - to take a shot at contributing an occasional editorial, poem, or the sharing of whatever was being pondered upon at the time. With ample encouragement from the boss (Mick), a weekly column ensued.
Camera, notepad, photo shoots and meetings... flitting about the county, eventually gave way to simply typing these ever-flowing thoughts to blank pages. What a dream job for an artist!
Stark white canvasses come alive with the application of selected colors and brushstrokes. Flat sheets of parchment acquire depth and breath through varying strokes of pencil, charcoal, crayon, pastels.With line, form, light and shadow, color, texture, boldness and subtlety, images are created. Words, framed within a column, to be perused and pondered, result in images as well.
This volume is a compilation of those columns... not in their entirety. There is no end to it... the pondering. To all those folks who have asked, "How do you come up with something to ponder on, each and every week?", the answer has, and always will be, "How could one not?"
About the Author
I live in west central Wisconsin, was born in the U.P. of Michigan, and grew up mostly in southern WI. Age: 53
Have always been a ponderer. As an art major at the University of WI, I did the Prisma colored pencil drawing that has been used for the cover of my book.
As "About the Book" states, I've been a writer, photographer, and reporter for our local newspaper, which led to having a regular weekly column.
Currently working on a cartoon series, a children's book of short stories, with original illustrations, and a novel. Long set aside artwork is being completed and new approaches to artistic expression explored. Poetry has always filled my mind and recently have taken to putting my poems to music. They are shared locally with friends on our "music night". Quite attached I am to a Martin guitar.
Tai Chi has long been a staple in life and is most conducive to the creative process. Gosh, there sure is lots of stuff to be sharing in this world! Hold to the wonderments.
Susan