I learned early that a word beside another word and another made sentences and paragraphs and more paragraphs made pages, and before you knew it you were completely and utterly lost in a wilderness of words. And that was a good thing.
Now I’m grown up. I read and I write and I still get lost in words. Which is okay. The wilderness is a great place to be.
So glad to see you back in the b-sphere. Be well. You have readers. Write!
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Baby steps, Ray. I’m happy that you’re glad I’m back. Thank you.
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very nice to meet you
David in Maine USA
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Hi Mary! Thanks so much for the follow – I look forward to getting to know you -and your blog!- better 🙂
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Thank you for your visit. I love getting lost in words, muse guided poems and prose.
All the best to you.
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Thank you! I will respond soon.
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Mary – I enjoy reading your posts and appreciate your point if view. Keep it up! I also wanted to let you know I have nominated you for the Liebster Award. I hope you have a great day and I am sure you enjoyed the conference and the coming o of spring, when it gets here.
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Love it. I’ve been following you for a few months, if you’re interested in some travel reading find me at http://www.worldcelebrationblog.com. Thank you, keep it up!!
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Thanks so much. I stopped by your site briefly. I plan on going back – it looks wonderful, and I do like to travel!
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Mary.
I like this. Iconic and creative, of course. Keep shining. Thanks.
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I agree that the wilderness is a great place to be. I love being lost in words. Really neat blog.
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true that – wilderness is a great place to be. am so happy to have stopped by. beautiful blog.
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Thank you! I’m happy you stopped by, too.
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Reading your blog has inspired me to continue writing, so I’ve nominated you for a Very Inspiring Blogger Award!
The rules for receiving this award are:
1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award’s requirements.
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one place where getting lost is not a bad thing…I am inspired!
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Thank you so much!…….
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I love your blogs, your photos are very beautiful. I’ll be back… I also have a second blog on old pictures.
piallat.wordpress.com
SENSUALITE | La beauté à l’état pure
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i luv it
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I love everything I read from you here. Found this blog coincidently and got lost in your wilderness….
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Hi!
It’s really nice that I found you!
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Thank you. I just checked out your blog and I love your work!
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Thanks a lot for your kindness!
So long,
ALEX
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Hi Marydpierce,
Your blog is beautiful and your writing incredibly inspiring.
I have recently began writing online after filling notebook after notebook with scribbles and ramblings over the last few years. Even now, looking back over my original blogs I cringe at the innocence of the writing (and more-so at the grammar), but everyone has to learn somewhere. The range of your writing is so impressive and really does create an emotional response. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Kerri
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Thank you for your very kind words, Kerri. I, too, used to fill notebooks by the dozens. It’s a good place to begin processing thoughts word by word, even if you later find the writing cringe-worthy (how well I remember THAT feeling!). Enjoy the process and FLY, darlin’, FLY!
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thanks for the encouragement …… keep it real
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Hi Mary!
As an admirer of your blog for a while now, I’ve nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award. You can view the nomination at Dear Writers (http://dearwriters.com/2014/01/27/a-major-award/). Keep up the awesome work!
XO Laurel Leigh
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Oh, my. That is so very kind of you, Laurel. And so appreciated! Thank you!
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So loving this wilderness of words.
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Christy from RoS sent me over to your space and I’m so glad she did. Love your words, your photos and am looking forward to seeing more of your wilderness.
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Aww…thank you! That Christy is a treasure, isn’t she. She has steered me to places I’m glad to have found.
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Great and inspiring blog! Thank you! Feel free to visit mine, too. 🙂
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Mary, just stopping by to check in on you and see how you’re doing! Hope you are well and happy, and the writing is progressing at a pace to keep you content.
Take care! Laurie
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Thanks, Laurie. You are kind to drop by and say hello! It made my day!! 🙂
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Getting lost in words is a good thing … so carry on!
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Hi Mary — I found your blog today and am enjoying it! I’ve been on a fun adventure in the blogging wilderness this year, having resolved to visit and comment on a positive blog every day, while keeping a list on my own blog. Yours is today’s entry. Thanks for sharing your stories and reflections!
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Thank you, Meg. That’s one of the nicest things anyone has said to me. One of my goals in writing is to be positive. Thanks for reading!
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Hi Mary,
I came across your blog today and started reading, Believe me when I tell you this, it was like reading my own thoughts, even those which I have not shared with anyone. They were knit together in words whose beauty lay in their simplicity. I am thrilled to find my thoughts echoing somewhere in the world. Thank you for writing, I hope to read a lot more of your work, it is an inspiration to continue writing for me as well.
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I appreciate your kind words more than I can express. We all hope to connect to others with what we write, and it is thrilling when it happens. Thank you so much.
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Thanks so much for the follow. I’m really enjoying your blog; words to savour and ideas to mull. Thanks.
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Hi Mary, just letting you know that my book has finally been published today, and I’ve posted some links to it. Thank you for your encouragement.
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I love your blog’s title, “A Wilderness Of Words.” It reminds me of some favorite lines:
A terror shakes my tree,
A flock of words fly out,
Whereat a laughter shakes
The busy and devout.
Wild images, come down
Out of your freezing sky,
That I, like shorter men,
May get my joke and die.
— Selection from “Trinculo,” from W. H. Auden’s “The Sea and the Mirror”
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Thank you. I love Auden, though I haven’t read these lines previously. I did, just today, read a poem by Kate Angus. It was a homage to the poet James Schuyler who, for a few years, lived in a rented house with Auden and was his secretary. Here in one day are two references to Auden. Funny how that works.
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