grace grits and gardening

ramblings from an arkansas farm girl

Brand New Year…

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The only new year's resolutions needed…
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Roll away the dark clouds and 
Enjoy the 
Sunlight, the feel 
Of a brand new year.
Listen. Really listen and hear.  
Understand we are all different. Make
Time for special. Create. Push
Into the unknown, past
Obstacles that constrict and confine. Say
No. 
Say yes. Whichever is more
Freeing. Focus 
On the road ahead while
Remembering where the path began.
Reach deep, write fervently,
Expose life’s layers.
Always be considerate. 
Love the unloveable. Release the negative.
Laugh. Read something different. Re-read an old favorite.
Indulge. Cook with passion. Have
Faith. Smile. Walk in the rain.
Exist in the now.

What will you do with this brand new year?

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:

Van Morrison, Brand New Day


Hemingway’s Barn

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Stories that waited for paper now wait for me. 
With so much to say, I search for a worthy beginning. Thoughts that swirled and drifted through dreams, now hide just out of reach.
Inside this barn, I am filled with something greater. I am filled with possible.
Through the windowpane, I gaze into a towering matt of dark green leaves.  Trees inspire and shade and watch over me, the same trees that watched him too.
My thoughts are safe inside this space. I am free to explore, free to wonder and wander. The air is full of potential.
A ray of sunshine splits the canopy and brightens my writing table. 
Dust motes dance. 
In the distance, a train rumbles, then and now.
He said there is nothing to writing.  Just sit down at the typewriter and bleed. 
And so I bleed.
talya
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.
 
Hemingway’s Barn won 2nd place in the 2013 White County Creative Writer’s competition for the category “Favorite Writing Place”. 
 
For information on Hemingway’s Barn and the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, click HERE. 

Conditions Apply

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other conditions on publishing…
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Her journey began simply enough. 

She had no real concept of the process.


After spilling her soul onto paper, publishers would clamber for her story.

Right? 

After all, you can grow up and do anything your heart desires… 

Now she understands. 

Spirit and resolve and twisting words until they hum aren’t enough. 

Other conditions apply. 

talya
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life
This was written especially for Write Tribe 55 on Friday. Write 55 words on the prompt: Conditions Apply.



Food. Farm. Garden. Life.

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