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    Václav Havel on Hope

    Hope is… not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out… It is also…… Read more “Václav Havel on Hope”

    September 12, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Nothing Artificial

    There is nothing artificial about a moment of inspiration. ~Winton Marsalis Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash

    February 6, 2021February 3, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Thank You, Dr. Seuss

    Thank you, Dr. Seuss for speaking for the Truffula trees for the brown-bar-ba-loots, the swomee-swans, and the humming- fish — and all those whose blood in some…… Read more “Thank You, Dr. Seuss”

    August 4, 2020December 29, 2020 by Kate Gough

    An Ode to Books

    Dearest People, Books are brains, inside-out. Books are impossible, archaic, odd, and easy to dismiss – but only if unread. When read, books show us everything that…… Read more “An Ode to Books”

    June 26, 2020December 29, 2020 by Kate Gough

    i dream of rosehip tea.

    it was months ago when i picked rosehips along my path home by the sea, slipping each one like a little gold nugget into the pockets of…… Read more “i dream of rosehip tea.”

    November 13, 2019September 12, 2021 by Kate Gough

    …That Thing with Wings

    Autumn breathes on my facefrom afar — so fresh! — stirringevery unique nerve ending tosudden, electric life. As if my mother’s cool handrested gently on my arm,I’m…… Read more “…That Thing with Wings”

    September 24, 2019February 9, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Realism.s

    My own particular brand of bleak is firm, and unambiguous enough to recognise our dark as a basic truth: the world-rending fire of the human soul is…… Read more “Realism.s”

    May 2, 2019January 30, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Today

    I cannot write. Cannot write, cannot write cannotwritecannotwrite.There is nothing to say, it’s all been read,saidanddone. I cannot writeright: my idealism won’t countenance these mongrel awkwardnesses, won’tafford…… Read more “Today”

    April 10, 2018February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Grey

      https://youtu.be/808nTiXLam8 I’m still in this place. Sometimes it seems I never leave. * Gallery, 2014 Imagine, if you will a gallery piece installed, a row of plants at… Read more "Grey"

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    May 23, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Einstein on Beauty

    The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ~ Albert Einstein 1879-1955

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    May 22, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    The Ever-Processing Machine

    I can’t find my incense. I don’t want to write. I desperately want nothing more than to write. For ever. So then, perhaps I’m just a stymied…… Read more “The Ever-Processing Machine”

    May 13, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    ‘If the Furies Should Take…’

    ‘It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet. Before I get all rapturous and carried away here, I had…… Read more “‘If the Furies Should Take…’”

    July 4, 2015February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Comma

    “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”… Read more "Comma"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    A New Proposition

    -- "Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent... Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you… Read more "A New Proposition"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Swans in the Wind

    July 5, 2014February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Everything Unresolved

    “. . . I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to…… Read more “Everything Unresolved”

    July 4, 2014February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    ‘And even those…

    'And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This… Read more "‘And even those…"

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    June 16, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Fortunes.

    c. Mary Kathryn Gough Photoshop Elements.

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    May 6, 2014May 6, 2014 by Kate Gough

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