For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew

For Random Learning Comes

For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew

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Future Lands

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We have all been through months and months of difficult events and conditions, from COVID to impeachment, from job loss to natural disaster.  Who doesn’t long for escape?  And those with a few years under their belts may long not only to enjoy again, but also, to have the the energy to enjoy everything thoroughly! …

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CamelCase

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  {I had to think about this Friday Fictioneers photo prompt for a while before deciding how to approach it.  Thus the somewhat late entry.  For those of you who don’t already know, “camel case” is the name for the typographical use of capitals, to differentiate the important, meaningful parts of a single (usually compound) …

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Spring Forward

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Spring.  This is the time of year, even in the coldest climate, when your thoughts turn to gardens. You may not, necessarily, spend a lot of time thinking about the work of gardening: the clearing of the spent beds, the weeding, the digging, the planting, the fertilizing, the mulching.   But  you do relish and long …

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Playing in a Minefield

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    {This post was originally published around Memorial Day, 2017, as a response to the WordPress.com prompt “Detonate”.  I have included this is my series SIxty Days because it touches upon our relationship to the outside world, our sense of ourselves as heroes, and our terror of those who might seek to harm us.  …

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Who Only England Know

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“And what should they know of England, who only England know?” –Rudyard Kipling  (“The English Flag“)   If you are like me, you are a PBS Masterpiece junkie.  Anything dramatized by BBC and taking place at least twenty years ago, with gorgeous costumery, will strike your fancy.  So you must be as thrilled as I …

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