July 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cork, Events, Ireland, London, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Readings, Sacramento, Saturdays, Shakespeare, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Washington DC, Wordpress
- Share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction. It can be monumental, minor, or something in between.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
For this post, self decided to kill two birds with one stone. She’ll look back at her fondest memories of 2017 (thus far) — the moments that gave her the most satisfaction.
From Shakespeare’s Globe, her last night in London, June 2017
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017
Bus Stop (near the Cathedral of Notre Dame)
Waiting for the beginning of Kenneth Macmillan’s beautiful, stunning ballet, “Mayerling”: Saturday, May 13
The Main House, Under a Crescent Moon
The Forest Seen From the Lake: Early March
Going to the Globe and seeing Tristan and Yseult; sorting through old photographs of Dearest Mum; seeing the Eiffel Tower up close; reading her story First Causes at Sixth Engine in Washington, DC; watching Mayerling at the Royal Albert Hall; visiting Cork; Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 28, 2017 at 7:52 am (Artists and Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, dystopia, Fridays, Ireland, science fiction, short story, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
K thinks the boss is in love with her.
She looks like a mosaic puffball, her skin covered with checkered patterns.
The boss was born Earthstar. He’d never look her way. His spores were meant to go else: to a Silverleaf. Or a Shag. Not K that smelled like wet rot. All scaly cap and throat gills. She belonged with other Common.
Varnish and varnish. I’ll say this for K: she is tenacious. Especially about her delusions.
Wrote this story coming out of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, 2014. Got all of the imagery from a book about mushrooms.
Stay tuned.
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July 25, 2017 at 1:00 am (Artists and Writers, Eavesdropping, Places, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, dystopia, inspiration, Ireland, science fiction, short story collections, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
Self is trying to put together a collection. Which involves a laboriously slow process of selection. It is nice, though, re-reading stuff.
from Spores:
(Set in the far future. Very, very, very far. Society’s divided into classes: Earthstar, Silverleaf, Shag, and Common. The main characters are a pair of lab workers named K and R. K is a girl, R is a boy. The story’s told from R’s point of view)
“We be needing foxes,” I said once.
“You lousy hedgehog,” the boss said, giving me a good one. My right eye swelled up almost immediately.
“You not be asking me to fetch, you lousy Common!” He gave me another good one on the way out.
K trembling there in the corner.
The voice was birthed while eavesdropping at the dinner table in Annaghmakerrig.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 9, 2017 at 2:33 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, breakfast, California, coffee, desserts, Fridays, Ireland, memories, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, websites, writing process
Self originally posted a different photo for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, but that was because she hadn’t read the prompt, only looked at the title, boo.
The prompt is supposed to be about finding Photo Ops In Your Own House.
Since self hasn’t been in her own house in years, here are the closest things to it:
- Her writing table at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, with her cup of coffee next to her MacBook Air. She always starts the day with a pot of coffee.
- A friend’s house in San Gabriel, CA
Crushing the Writing: Thursday, 2 July
Having breakfast outside with Connie Ignacio Genato, friends since grade school in Manila
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 9, 2017 at 1:55 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Links, postaday, Sayings, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Cork, discoveries, humor, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
Self must admit, this past week’s Photo Challenge — DANGER! — has been tricky. She’s decided to keep her interpretations straightforward and focus on signage or warning symbols.
- Detail of a nautical map in the Time Traveller’s Bookshop, Skibbereen, West Cork: This is one of the most intricate maps self has ever seen. But of course, it had to be. Lives depended on the correct soundings.
Detail of Nautical Map Showing, Self Thinks, West Cork
- A Sketch by Bernadette Burns, Artist from Sherkin Island, off Skibbereen, West Cork: It’s a study for a work-in-progress.
Bernadette said she did this “for fun”!
- London City Airport attached this to self’s suitcase, when she was on the way to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, in March. Self’s suitcases are always heavy: they’re filled with books. One Irish cabbie dubbed self “a book addict.”
London City Airport attached this warning label to one of her suitcases, last March.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 30, 2017 at 9:46 am (Flowers, Links, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cee Neuner, Garden, inspiration, Ireland, memories, photography, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Forget the name of these flowers, but self had a wee bush back home in Redwood City, California. These are at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig.
Here’s the link to the flowers that grew in her garden in northern California. The official name is Alstroemeria “Third Harmonic.”
One day, self will write a story called “Third Harmonic.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 26, 2017 at 5:24 pm (destinations, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, California, England, Ireland, London, memories, Mendocino, photography, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Morning Fog, Mendocino: January 2017
Sunday Evening, Trafalgar Square, London: March 2017
Annaghmakerrig Lake, Early Morning: March 2017
The Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig: Under a Crescent Moon: March 2017
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April 26, 2017 at 10:07 am (Flowers, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, environment, happiness, Ireland, postaday, postaweek, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
On the way to the Dance Studio, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig
Walking Around the Lake Yesterday Morning (Before the Hailstorm)
Leaves and Sky
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April 23, 2017 at 12:01 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Garden, Ireland, postaday, postaweek, Sundays, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Artists Studio # 1
Yesterday During Self’s Walk
Inside Unit # 1: Moonrise
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April 22, 2017 at 11:27 am (Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, environment, Garden, happiness, Ireland, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
Share an image that means ‘earth’ to you — whether it’s a panorama of a landscape that takes your breath away, a close-up revealing a detail in nature, or another scene that honors the outdoors . . .
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
Went for a long walk this morning, in honor of Earth Day. It was peaceful and beautiful by the lake. Here are some pictures:
The first swan she’s seen at the lake this year!
More flowers popping up all over!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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