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Flowing Well {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 7}

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 14, 2012 | Fresh-Cut Flowers, Pencils & Pens, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}

They come there empty. The construction worker in his rusty pick-up, he comes with a used Gatorade bottle. The business woman on her lunch break brings a 5-gallon jug for the water cooler. The little ones and I watch from a picnic table made out of recycled milk jugs,...

When I Cannot Write a Story

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 20, 2012 | Pencils & Pens

Four years back, this room smelled of acrylic and turpentine. Stained brushes fanned out in jars, bouquets of spotted color on horse hair. Canvas after canvas leaned against these walls…Summer Yellow Wheat, Reading Tree, Starbursts…all windows to...