Tuesday, December 3, 2013

8-year-old Cat Lady

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Premonitions

“I started writing when I was seven or eight. I was very shy and strange-looking, loved reading above everything else, weighed about forty pounds at the time, and was so tense that I walked around with my shoulders up to my ears, like Richard Nixon. I saw a home movie once of a birthday party I went to in the first grade, with all these cute little boys and girls playing together like puppies, and all of a sudden I scuttled across the screen like Prufrock’s crab. I was very clearly the one who was going to grow up to be a serial killer, or keep dozens and dozens of cats.” 

—Anne Lamott, writer, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994
• Editorial Comment: Buck up, Annie. Those cute puppies are selling insurance today.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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PeezPix by Ted Pease 

Christmas Morning 2012, Trinidad Fishermen’s Memorial






Original PeezPix for sale. ted.pease@gmail.com


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