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Snoozing on the Subway

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Nancy Wait

Sleepy in the spring with the rocking of the train and time to kill, having a little time-out, catching a few winks between here and there, somewhere in a Brooklyn tunnel. I’m a subway voyeur, taking photos to labor over … Continue reading →

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Drawing People on the Subway

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Nancy Wait

I’m still at it. I don’t have the wonder and awe I had in my 20s, but I remember how exciting it was learning to draw people, every subway ride an opportunity for study. From my latest (not yet published) … Continue reading →

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Seated Humans

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Nancy Wait

They are in Brooklyn, though they could be anywhere, sitting on a subway train, waiting in a doctor’s office. Waiting to be called, waiting to get somewhere, waiting for their stop. Passing the time in thought, or scrolling, or texting. … Continue reading →

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How an Artist is Like a Tree: Paul Klee on Creativity

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Nancy Wait

By Paul Klee – Swiss-born German artist (1879-1940) The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way in it. His sense of direction has brought order into the passing stream of image … Continue reading →

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Touchy-Feely

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Nancy Wait

It’s been years since I’ve had a stack of newspapers on the coffee table, and seeing it there made it look like home. As if this was what the living room had been missing. The papers. And to think I … Continue reading →

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Achilles Heel

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Nancy Wait

If you woke up with a pain in your heel… Continue reading →

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Time Pieces

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Nancy Wait

Time. It’s always time and there’s never enough. Except when there’s too much in this place where we’re all doing time. Time me, ti-me, tie-me-to-time. Or let the battery run out, let the ticking stop. But not my heart. Let … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Blood, Body and Spirit

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Nancy Wait

“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.” Continue reading →

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Prayer, 08.08 Portal

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Nancy Wait

God, grant me the insight to realize that everything I see/read/hear online (and everywhere else for that matter) is the result of the particular frequency of the one posting. It’s a level of perception, nothing more, nothing less. A viewpoint, … Continue reading →

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Making Your Unknown Known

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Nancy Wait

When I went to London in the late 1960s I brought a sword with me on the plane. (It was allowed in those days.) I was bringing it over for a friend. Seven years later, when it became time for … Continue reading →

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