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This is the Participants Page for the 2008 November/December Project: Jewels. It will be updated until the Project closes..

Option One: Pick Three

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents’ pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~Susan Sontag

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Option Two: Can You Picture That?



Photo Credit: Janet Spering

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Option Three: Poetry

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
~Mark Twain

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Option Four: Fiction

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
~Federico Fellini

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Option Five: Timed Writing

I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like…. It’s like Tiffany’s…. Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re
forty…

~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(spoken by the character Holly Golightly)

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Option Six: Seven Things

Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~George Savile

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Don’t forget to comment here with your name, the title of your piece, the selected option number, and the direct link to it. Also, please note: since the database was destroyed and I’ve had to reconstruct, you’ve ALL become first-time posters again, so your comments will be queued for approval.

Also? There’s still time to submit to this Project. Follow this link for the actual prompts.

HAPPY WRITING

5 Comments

  1. for Option 1 I submit:

    Pieces of the Landscape of My Youth

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/11/pieces-of-landscape-of-my-youth.html

    sister AE

    Comment by sister AE — 29 November 2008 @ 10:42 am

  2. for option #2 I submit:

    Dancing Through Time

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/11/dancing-through-time.html

    sister AE

    Comment by sister AE — 29 November 2008 @ 11:04 am

  3. for option 3:

    Second Hand

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/11/second-hand.html

    sister AE

    Comment by sister AE — 30 November 2008 @ 10:00 am

  4. POETRY:

    GOT HOLIDAY SPIRIT?

    PS: On Sundays, you are welcome to post a link-comment at MEME EXPRESS – with your Sunday SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry entries. 8-)

    Comment by Linda - Nickers and Ink — 7 December 2008 @ 2:32 pm

  5. POETRY entry . . . from THE MANE POINT, A HAVEN FOR HORSE LOVERS

    FROZEN FOODS AND FILLY FRIENDS

    Comment by Linda - The Mane Point — 7 December 2008 @ 7:00 pm

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