Cedar Writes

Tag: Life

  • Potential

    Potential

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Spring has always been, for me, the beginning of a new year. Winter is a time of enduring, waiting for the return of warmth, flowers, and the sun. When the rains come and the green unfurls, then I feel the quickening of my heart in time with the bird’s song. I’ve had a garden always,…

  • Live like an Orchid

    Live like an Orchid

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I was reading a book the other day that mentioned a hothouse. It was a British mystery, and the hothouse did actually play a role… and if you like Brit mysteries I can highly recommend this series which starts with A Man of Some Repute and is set in the Cold-War Era (just don’t bother…

  • There’s a light

    There’s a light

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I met with my college advisor yesterday – for those of you who are here for the fiction, this is a personal life update, sorry. She went over my transcripts and requirements with me, and confirmed that I am on track to graduate in December. We talked about what my senior capstone can be (whatever…

  • The Gibbering Creature

    The Gibbering Creature

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I was driving home today and contemplating the nature of fear. As I got in the car and turned on the radio, the dulcet tones of a clarinet washed over me like warm honey. My day was finished, and all I had to do was to go home and finish a little light homework before…

  • Hiatus

    Hiatus

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    I’m not dead yet! I’ll get better! I just have a lot of homework. Really a lot and that means no time to think, and I am pretty sure you all aren’t interested in how to set up PCR primers or how to access a UNIX database and set up directories and files and more……

  • Self Images

    Self Images

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    Written by Sanford Begley I re-watched an old western last night. How old? It was released the year I was born. The movie was called Cowboy and was about a kid learning to be a man. Some of the things the movie thought represented manhood look silly today, and Jack Lemmon was too old to…

  • One down, one to go

    One down, one to go

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    So the math homework that is due tomorrow is done. I have Physics to work on, and since tomorrow I am finishing up a lab experiment, I need to do that today. In today’s post, Brad Torgersen at the Mad Genius Club talks about writerly maxims, but one of them applies to my schoolwork. Know…

  • Accretion of Decisions

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Everyone knows how an oyster makes pearls. You start with a tiny grain of sand, and you add layer after layer until finally, there is a pearl. Life is like that. You start by making little decisions. Gradually, every decision, no matter how small to begin with, gains in momentum as it is added to…

  • Passing in Review

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I will be doing a brief book review today, but first, I wanted to take a few moments of your time to think about America the Beautiful. I’m proud to be an American, I have been since I was a little girl still not entirely certain what that sentiment really meant. While I have never…