Sep3

nothing to lose.

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Milana Skoriic, Disheveled Flower Painting, watercolor on paper

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September 

then the flowers became very wild

because it was early september

and they had nothing to lose

they tossed their colors every

which way over the garden wall

splattering the lawn shoving their

wild orange red rain-disheveled faces

into my window without shame. 

~ grace paley

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  2. Had a similar conversation with my writing group yesterday. All are over 60 and very much going wild because they are in the autumn of their lives and really do feel like they’ve got nothing to lose. All say they are now writing things they wouldn’t have been brave enough, or wild enough, to have written years ago

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  5. Such a lovely quote, and it applies to many people too. Added to that, I am writing this in the middle of a storm that is currently finishing off any plant life that has survived a hot summer in my garden.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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  16. What a beautiful and vivid poem. The accompanying watercolor juxtaposes nicely with it. Come to think of it, this time of the year before the start of fall is beautiful when the late summer flowers bloom, like black eye Susan’s!

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