writing exercise thingy

250 words, use all 10 words: brown, crisp, damp, golden, playful, piles, russet, trampled, withered, wrinkled

a crisp autumn breeze sets the piles of russet leaves to dancing playfully, as the withered old woman watches from a park bench.  these days, her golden years, are spent on this park bench, under this tree, beneath this sky, watching the seasons come to a close.  the path leading from here is trampled and worn.  she reaches a wrinkled, wizened hand to brush the dampness from her cheek, as she prepares to leave, wrapping an old brown sweater tightly around her.

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Tagged as: hobbies,writing August 13, 2008 @ 05:53 am

in this world by wendell berry

The hill pasture, an open place among the trees,
tilts into the valley. The clovers and tall grasses
are in bloom. Along the foot of the hill
dark floodwater moves down the river.
The sun sets. Ahead of nightfall the birds sing.
I have climbed up to water the horses
and now sit and rest, high on the hillside,
letting the day gather and pass. Below me
cattle graze out across the wide fields of the bottomlands,
slow and preoccupied as stars. In this world
men are making plans, wearing themselves out,
spending their lives, in order to kill each other.

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Tagged as: photos,poetry July 14, 2008 @ 01:28 am

harry dresden, wizard extraordinaire, speaks out against torture

- “it isn’t enough to stand up and fight the darkness.  you’ve got to stand apart from it, too.  you’ve got to be different from it.”

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Tagged as: books,quotes July 08, 2008 @ 11:02 pm