Karen Wills

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

@goodreads A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

@iswanTheHill The paw is 100%. She has been released for recreational jaunts outside. Therefore, she probably won't bite you during your upcoming visit.

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No artist could ask for more. Listen on the clip. https://t.co/3UMMtupmoL

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“Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”

~ Dylan Thomas, ‘Under Milk Wood.’ https://t.co/tTIQGqNN4K

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Here's a nice little nod to the ever-useful pronoun 'you.' "Needless to say, this ambiguity and variability were gold in the hand of a writer like Shakespeare, and he played with it endlessly, sometimes having a character switch... https://t.co/vJjI6OWJWM

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There's something about clothes on a line or the old act of hanging them out to dry, that can be domestic or dramatic or just an evocative part of the setting. Think of Girl with a Pearl Earring and other... https://t.co/X8buEW94Bc

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Thanks to Alexander Verney-Elliott
"Oh, I've never had success. Not normal success. My first one-man show was two years ago in Pasadena when I was 75 years old. Even then, it wasn't very important. But then,... https://t.co/MvP00VsELV

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Sneaky. https://t.co/1i8RbS9yDf

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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.

But in the main, I feel like a... https://t.co/tCKDLj1V2K

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Well, that answers one question, but opens so many others. Great reading. https://t.co/LWOZXWb5iJ

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I've been lucky enough to know a few like this. https://t.co/DeIqkcZviC

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

"What Kind of Times Are These" by Adrienne Rich*

There's a place between two stands of trees where the
grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house... https://t.co/JVDHNVcyDc

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

Fiction is art. Life is random. https://t.co/q0rwnt2rik

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

Edward Hopper, the painter of loneliness and silence. He once said “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” https://t.co/LBqvXJCRxS

[Karen Wills @kkw288]

"There is a reason that the First Amendment is first. And that Jefferson said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the... https://t.co/C4Ycu32NPB

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
”How does one mourn 6 million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude,... https://t.co/4tdPBpq8Kw

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An old favorite... https://t.co/L9yHcLi7B0

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I listen when I'm exercising or when my eyes are tired at night. It's like comfort food at the end of a long day, only no calories. https://t.co/RZFdNCo1Qm

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‘In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
Phil Ochs

Martin Johnson Heade - Blue Morpho Butterfly. https://t.co/6YWp8LGcUD

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"According to legend, the unique shape of May's flower led them to be called “fairy bells” in Celtic cultures. It was believed that only fairies could hear them ring! Read more about Lily of the Valley..." https://t.co/9CW7p1QzzW