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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
States I Have Visited – by Karson Jones (7 years old)
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] I like to travel. I live in California. So far I have visited nine other states. There are 50 states in the United States of America. Since I live in California, I still have 40 other states to...
Poems – 14
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information.] The painting at the top of this post by Hermann Orduña was discussed in this recent post by TITM: The Argument Does poetry still matter in this era of social media where the attention span...
Poems – 13
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Think in the Morning is returning to our poems and art series, specifically poems and Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art. This is our 13th page of poems paired with napkin art. Let us know if you...
Reading A Little Bit At A Time
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Folks who read at least 30 minutes a week are 20 percent more likely to report greater life satisfaction and 11 percent more likely to feel creative. They're also 28 percent less likely to suffer from...
The Bliss of Absent-Mindedness
[Click BLUE links for sources and information] Absence of mind doesn’t mean you are careless or lacking in focus; it just means the mind is meandering through fascinating labyrinths invisible to the open eye. Vinita Dawra Nangia, Are You Often...
The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living
To Live Well You have to take risks Risk failure Risk looking stupid Risk admitting you haven't got the skills Risk personal embarrassment Risk making mistakes Risk offending people That's the only way you can learn To succeed To be smart...
Wind Lightning Thunder Rain
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 I love watching the weather move in. At its simplest,...
Short Fiction – Seduction
Graham made all the arrangements. I was busy with a project. I didn’t even have time for a cursory review let alone the usual detailed preparation we generally put in. B was a famous writer. I knew he was eclectic and lived in Oaxaca. Eclectic isn’t quite...
Short Fiction – The Argument
No one remembers how it started. It was some silly little thing like the color of the water at Las Canteras. He said it was green. She said it was blue. Something like that. Things now were totally out of control. She insulted his mother. He called her sister a...
Short Fiction: The Dust Gatherers
The dust whispers into town like fog the difference being that fog bubbles are hollow and wet while dust bubbles are solid and dry. The houses are painted in bright colors so that people can find their way. The red houses lead to restaurants, the green...
Short Fiction: Green Leaves, Muted Flowers, Darkness
He feels as if he’s being watched. He looks up from the book to scan his surroundings. He sees nothing but green leaves, muted flowers, darkness. He listens. He hears only the singing of the grasshoppers, chapulines as they are called in the markets in Oaxaca....
Guest Post: A Saint in the Compost by Montgomery Howard
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Two years ago Think in the Morning wrote about Monty and Pilar (Huertos Bi Nisa): Some Traditional Markets of Oaxaca. Since then their Saturday market location has moved from outside Casa de las...