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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Proverbs 1:20-24 https://www.lianestrauss.com/commonplace/w6b1l6p3httwfwtkxaz7rg7na907ul-p75ek-xpnct-ss8ea-w8z62-2enj8-95mkd-298wn monthly 0.5 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642760c6c586b932314e4b2b/fefb3ff3-9738-4a6f-af43-ffc0764eaa04/hockney.jpg commonplace - turning to fresh tasks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lianestrauss.com/commonplace/w6b1l6p3httwfwtkxaz7rg7na907ul-p75ek-xpnct-ss8ea-w8z62-cjn72-8g3s8-yy32y-8cw28 monthly 0.5 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642760c6c586b932314e4b2b/a3f63b0b-e86e-4955-80ac-a9d4803221d8/magritte.jpg commonplace - sweet sweet peach trees - There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains. There were dizzy bees and bow-tied fruit flies turning somersaults and humming in the air. Sweet sweet peach trees. Thorn roses and thistle and pears. Weeds like so many squinty-eyed stars and brush that made your ankles itch and itch until you washed with soap and water. There were big green apples as hard as knees. And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead. The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros https://www.lianestrauss.com/commonplace/w6b1l6p3httwfwtkxaz7rg7na907ul-p75ek-xpnct-ss8ea-w8z62-cjn72-8g3s8-yy32y monthly 0.5 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642760c6c586b932314e4b2b/21c20f32-2f78-4e50-85ac-5e237b704633/funeral.jpg commonplace - a plank in reason - "I'll tell you what: you just about made a fool of yourself," said Fay. "You were just before trying to hit me with that plank. But you couldn't have done it. You don't know the way to fight." She squinted up one eye. "I had a whole family to teach me." But of course, Laurel saw, it was Fay who did not know how to fight. For Fay was without any powers of passion or imagination in herself and had no way to see it or reach it in the other person. Other people, inside their lives, might as well be invisible to her. To find them, she could only strike out those little fists at random, or spit from her little mouth. She could no more fight a feeling person than she could love him. 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