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Quoted in The Grove:
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~T S Eliot

People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don’t ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that is all.
~Ziauddin Yousafzai

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~Ray Bradbury

EndQuote:
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
~Nicholas Lore

 

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Prewritten Exercise Prompt:  splinter

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Posted from the Grove

Medium.com has removed its paywall for all coronavirus/COVID19 related articles
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Recommended Read:  How to Tell If You Have the Flu, Coronavirus, or Something Else  (with symptom chart)

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To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
~Henri Matisse

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~Aesop

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On Writing:

Tanka Poetry – A Brief Introduction
https://medium.com/house-of-haiku/tanka-poetry-a-brief-introduction-11f2aabef214

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Courage is saying maybe what I’m doing isn’t working, maybe I should try something else.
~Anna Lappe

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Vimeo Video:  The Foreigner   (17:04)   Intense
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/375358899

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Coward:  One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
~Ambrose Bierce

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
~Peter Ustinov

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~Henry George Bohn

Don’t try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
~Paulo Coelho

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Song For The Times: 

~Rio 2: I Will Survive (2:10)   Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNc_AAyjFdk

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To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
~Janeane Garofalo

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzi

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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
~Coventry Patmore

 

 

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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
~Rosa Parks

Necessity does the work of courage.
~Nicholas Murray Butler

A brave arm makes a short sword long enough.
~French proverb

 

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@Writers Platform

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Mark Twain

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Prewritten Prompt:  courage

~BarTalk:
Fire Us the Virus

Mutant Porridge
Late touring band
Music gone viral
Best in the land
Grunge their style
Never washed their hands
Critic warned danger
Before he was canned

Dire Warning their rivals
Too cerebral and bland
Their lyrics and stylings
Universally panned
Their music and message
Law suited and banned
False Courage their song
Their beer and their brand

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Utah’t Me Love

College degree
PhD in biology
Acknowledged love
All its chemistry
Pledged to wed
Gave way to bigamy
Judge overruled
Jail and tragedy
Dodged that bullet
Avoided calamity
Bridged disaster
Courage from comedy
Salvaged the outcome
Comity from catastrophe
A privileged state
Heaven blest polygamy

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sequence

solo elemental atoms
single simple selves
classic basic building blocks
molecule membrane animal and life

cells of lonely selves
melt and merge and gel in love
coagulate into couples
conceive families for life

remote isolated artists
solitary outlying mavericks
given the courage say no to love
creative freaks quarantined for life

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Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.
~Lana Del Rey

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~Maya Angelou

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
~Nora Ephron

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Quotes harvested from:  AZQuotes.com,  Quote Garden.com

 

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Quoted in The Grove:
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

One way to meet new people is to listen more carefully to the people you see every day.
~Robert Brault

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~Joyce Brothers

EndQuote:
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
~Wilson Mizner

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/08/20:  courage

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I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
~Charles C Finn

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Posted from the Grove

On Writing:
Naked, Drunk, and Very Tired   (10 Weird life-style hacks used by creative geniuses)
https://forge.medium.com/i-tried-10-extreme-creativity-hacks-cc17665702b7

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People don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
~Stephen Covey

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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Video:
~Vimeo:  BookFace   Books alive!    (1:19)
https://vimeo.com/391933063

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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
~Harper Lee

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~Robert McCloskey

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Music:
~DHT:  feat. Edmee  Listen To Your Heart    (4:38)

~Sylvie Simmons:  Rhythm of the Rain    (2:33)

~Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music   (5:05)

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No one is listening until you fart.
~Author Unknown

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.
~Author Unknown

 

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Not all my day can I spend in listening, for I, too, must evolve, ere the night comes on.
~Muriel Strode

 

© David Lorenz Winston

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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@Writers Platform

Exercise Prompt:  listen

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~BarTalk:
christmas story

schedule free
holiday treat
hamper full
notepad clean
laundromat open
warm and empty
a random meet
something between
chance and serendipity
fifty dollars
those clean sheets
and you can love me
a plaintive plea in
plain jane’s gravelly voice
this for that
a desperate choice
tit for tat
please
or let me read
what you wrote
I’m hungry for words
a bite to eat and company
too good for bed
we talked instead
ate a lot
drank bottled red
we read aloud
and better yet
we listened
and in the morning
parted

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noise then silence

a friendless silence
then the rains return
pretending to be music

a dog in the distance
barks to protect the tv inside
the children preparing for bed

a Harley in the distance
growling like a dog nearby
warding off boredom with danger

a car slishing thru wet streets
has a destination
keeps the reason secret

the cloud muffled stars
fill the emptiness between them
with the whisper of neutrinos

and all is gossip
with no one to listen

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Prelude

Listen
And the silence rages with memory
Shame and moments of courage vie
Transcend the victor’s territory
Where success may need a lie
Nothing hides in the silent apostrophe
Where we know judgment before we die

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Summoned

Listen to it
The smell of delicious calling
The farewell cry of spices fallen
Spirits of shredded bodies growing
In my garden

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Old Bone Spurs

Listen to the venom of the fallen reign
Telling me just what a fool he’s been
Ignored the science left the Dow in pain
So let’s be free of him again

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5-7-5 x 2

history has a voice
listen to the tale it tells
else it warns too late
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history has a tail
heed the body lest it pass
call it consequence

 

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If I had it to do again, I’d ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.
~Robert Brault

Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters.
~Author unknown

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Curated by:  Wordgrove

 

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