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The Journey is a State of Mind: Guest Hosting for #WQWWC #5 New Beginnings
My long-time blogging friend is the first guest host of #WQWWC. This week’s topic, “New Beginnings” has many facets, your life, your goals, a new year full of promise.
Autty shared a beautifully illustrated raw and vulnerable story of her life and her hopes for the future. Share what matters to you using quotes that reflect the meanings you choose to highlight in “New Beginnings.
For a long stretch of time, I nuzzled through the moon-bathed Past like a mud-caked armadillo. Without thought, an armored little automaton, I snouted through nests of blaspheme vine and toppled barbed-wire fences, scrabbled about pale, mortuous spines of driftwood, and plashed into oiling, mist-cloaked swamps.
It seems my mind went on pause sometime shortly before she died.
“My characters are drifters and searchers and they look for something. The journey is a state of mind for them.” -Wim Wenders
Something wound round me, protective, choking, like a strangler fig. A pinhole sparked through the muscled arms of roots, providing a strange, light-and-shadow-view of the world.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” -John Milton
I always loved dead and withered things. The the smell of sun-baked bones and the exhaust of moldered leaves glinting like tar…
Hi, I'm Marsha Ingrao, a retired educator and wife of a retired realtor. My all-consuming hobby is blogging and it has changed my life. My friends live all over the world. For thirty-five years, I lived in the most beautiful area in Central Valley of California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains minutes from the Sequoia National Park. As a child I moved from Indiana to Oregon. With my first husband I moved from Oregon to Colorado to California. Every time we moved, it hurt so much to leave friends. I never wanted to move again. After Mark passed, I married again. I told Vince that I could never budge from my roots in California. He said he loved the high desert. I don't think he ever thought he would realize his dream. In November, 2020, we sold everything and retired to the mile-high desert of Prescott, AZ. We live less than five miles from the Granite Dells, four lakes and hundreds of trails with our dog, Kalev, and two cats, Moji and Nutter Butter. Vince's sister came with us and lives close by. Every day is a new adventure.
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Hi Marsha. If you recall, you gave me some ideas of my walks aligning with your topics. Thanks as this is the first application. Several weeks ago I wrote a beach walk about Dawn, which fits the theme. I invite your readers to stop by and comment. https://beachwalkreflections.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/21-dawn/ … (I will also post this on the guest host’s post)
Thanks, Marsha. You should have an email. By the way, could you check with the current host because I fear my comment has gone to her Spam folder because it has yet to appear.
A lovely share, Marsha.
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Thank you Robbie. If you get a chance, play along!
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Hi Marsha. If you recall, you gave me some ideas of my walks aligning with your topics. Thanks as this is the first application. Several weeks ago I wrote a beach walk about Dawn, which fits the theme. I invite your readers to stop by and comment. https://beachwalkreflections.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/21-dawn/ … (I will also post this on the guest host’s post)
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Thanks, Frank. Yes, I did send you the list of topics I thought would work for your to host. Email me at marshaalwayswrite@tchistorygal.net if you would like me to write your name next to some of the weeks. My page has a list of all the topics including the names of the guest hosts. https://tchistorygal.net/writers-quotes-wednesday-writers-challenge/
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Thanks, Marsha. You should have an email. By the way, could you check with the current host because I fear my comment has gone to her Spam folder because it has yet to appear.
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I will definitely check, Frank.
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