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Beautiful layering in your collage, LL. I love everything about this. Collage, poetry, coffee, coffee shops, playing, rearranging, and Poetry Club/community. <3 Ooh, and I spy James Crews' new anthology! Yay! I love his last two and would love to thumb through that one.

I've been thinking about collage for a long time too and how it overlaps with much in life. Including writing prose and poetry.

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Thank you, Bethany :) The iced coffee I had was very *yum*!

I didn't find it to be easy to do the collage at firts, but I did find that as I let go it began to do itself. Also, I found that my mind wandered in interesting philosophical ways, about the meaning of taking fragments (and also sometimes considering where I was taking them from and how that might secretly combine to "something more").

Doing collage surprised me, in how much it mirrored my poetry experiences! :)

Are there any ways in particular that collage overlaps with life for you?

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Oh, yes—secretly combine into something more! That's so fun and interesting about how it mirrored your poetry experiences.

I like how collage is approachable. Familiar. Its structure is similar to processing life. We constantly receive snippets of input from every which way. We can't help but combine and overlap them with our own experiences, wonderings, discoveries, hopes, and inclinations, These naturally combine to make up our bigger questions and perspective.

In the world of words, I just love reading, gathering, and penning ideas in tidbit-form. There's this extra thrill of thinking about how I might run a thread through it to create a particular multicolored piece. That "something more." I might gravitate toward prose with that, but the overall feel of collage writing comes across to me as poetic.

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would love to see any collage you do! :)

and, oh, wow. yes, as to how our brains work. looking for themes. constructing reality from all the bits. no wonder we can find it hard to communicate with others sometimes. (think of all the bits they are sifting through, too! :)

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Thank you, LL :D

Right? So much to process and then create into our own word-collage every time we have a thoughtful discussion.

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I think this is one reason why I take a long time to process and articulate my feelings and ideas. I'm sorting through my piles and don't know yet, myself, how my collage will layout and dry.

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Just love this!! May have to invite a few friends and take to the coffee shop for a poetry collage date.

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That sounds so fun. If you do it, we'd love to see pics! :)

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It sounds like a such a peaceful, happy time, doesn't it?

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Oh FUN! Another distraction. 😂😂

No... let’s call it a creative break.

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ha!

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Wish I could go to the coffee shop with you and the TSP community!

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I'm hoping play with some kind of collage while sipping on coffee next week. Artist Date. ;)

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