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Spring Brings Showers, Flowers & Art Shows to Muskoka!


ALL THINGS MAPLE This year Muskoka Arts & Crafts joins the Muskoka Maple Trail. Enjoy ALL THINGS MAPLE, art inspired by Maple Trees and Maple Syrup. at the Chapel Gallery 15 King Street, Bracebridge. Join us for the show opening eventMarch 17: 4-7 pm with Maple Inspired Snacksand Bar by donation.  Show Opens: March 17: 4-7 pm. Show runs until April 1, …

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Seashell Soliloquy


As a young child, I recall receiving an Atlantic Whelk Shell. “Put it up to your ear,” I was told. And I heard the roar of the sea. My eyes lit up with excitement and my love of the ocean began or perhaps it was rekindled. Who’s to know? * * * * * * …

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How I Became an Art Gallery Owner


For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing art-related articles for an online summer-focused magazine. Here’s a link to the latest issue to introduce you to MuskokaStyle, a magazine bringing the best of life and leisure in one of Ontario’s premier vacation areas – Muskoka! You can read my essay on how I started …

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NaPoWriMo 2022 Day #10


A place as seen by a woman in love Fluid as mercury, yet hard as steel Powerful as the birth of a new star deep in the heavens Thunderous as a herd of stampeding horses. Dazzling as it played dodge ball with rays of sun. Mesmerizing, drawing her into its welcoming embrace. Pure as liquid …

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NaPoWriMo2022 Day#6


Today’s challenge: write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line. Perhaps you could write a poem in which the first words of each line, read together, reproduce a treasured line of poetry? You could even try using a newspaper headline or something from a magazine article.  I chose, Once …

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NaPoWriMo 2022 Day #9


Today’s challenge was to write a Nonet. A nonet is a nine-line poem. In the nonet form, each line contains specific, descending syllable counts. The first line contains nine syllables, the second line contains eight, the third line contains seven, and so on. Day #9 Nonet Sleep-filled eyes gaze at the blazing sun  flashing hot hues ‘tween …

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NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #4


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NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #3


A Glosa to Robert Frost’s STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING A Glosa or Glose is literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds …

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NaPoWrMo 2022 – Day #2


In Pursuit of Weird Words I spent far too long searching for words, ones weird or slightly off. Wabbit I was by the end of it all I’d even developed a cough The words acted as a sternutator my sneezes heard near and far. I cannot go on This must come to an end This …

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THE CONTENTMENT OF TREES


NaPoWrMo2022 Day #1 Inspired by this quote by John Muir: “I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us …

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