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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Art, Cats, St. Nick, & Endless Rewriting

Because I love great art and cats, I was delighted to come across cats posing as in famous paintings.

http://www.visualnews.com/2012/05/01/cats-pose-as-famous-art-portraits/

Enjoy!

On this Feast of Saint Nicholas, who wasn't fat or jolly, but rather cantankerous. Read more here!

Why, yes! I'm procrastinating ... watching funny cats, reading articles about St. Nick, writing a single scene three times, discarding all of them, writing it yet another way, and realizing I. Must. Move. Forward. to the even more difficult scene I must write. Today!

How do you get through the hard scenes?

4 comments:

  1. Yes, the real St. Nick was so much more interesting than our chubby, sanitized version. I'd want to have him on my side in an argument!
    (Also, I had never read the pickle barrel story before. Is it bad that it made me laugh like crazy?? I mean, they ended up ok, right? ;)

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  2. Watching cats in not procrastinating, IMO. It's contemplating G-d's gifts of beauty and grace...

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  3. Oh, I know, I get stuck in the sticky areas too rather than moving on. I'm so chronological.

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  4. Faith, I'd love to have St. Nick on my side too ... and I have a feeling that we're all a bit batty. My kids laughed over the pickle barrel story too. And of course, they were fine :)

    Mirka, so true! As a person who feels feline on the inside, I can attest to the contemplative nature of cat-bird-fish-hamster watching. She's sleeping now ;)

    Marcia, I am able to jump past a difficult scene, but when I'm revising, I have to get things right!

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