Writing Samples
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- Small Things - by Maida Korte “To create something exceptional, your mind-set must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.” Giorgio Armani I love the harmony that details create in a space. See that carved corbel at the hallway ceiling in an old pine wood that is split and worn? It almost feels random, but this leads
+ Read More - The Wood Beneath Our Feet - “Why don’t we go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis played.” – John McEnroe by Maida Korte Stepping with bare feet onto an old wood floor feels natural, as though it is something our feet have been looking for all their life. Smooth not for the sanding, but for
+ Read More - Town - “Who doesn’t know what I’m talking aboutWho’s never left home, who’s never struck outTo find a dream and a life of their ownA place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.” Perched at the top of a crest in the road, our house stood like an old-world relic, proudly greeting all who ventured up
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- Counting and other Past-Times - Organizing our minds allows us access to our emotions.
- Expertise at Home - By Maida Korte “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”― Abraham Lincoln My mother once told me that upon dying, the very first thing she was going to do in heaven was to perform a tremendous
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- Sentimental Clutter - My paper project has taken me from the present to the past and back again.
- Sounds - “The queer little noises that no one explains, ‘Til the moon through the slats of my window blind rains.” (Unknown) Little sounds in the country keep me up at night, but I’m learning to cope, slowly. I knew I had a problem when I was irritated one morning by the sound of birds chirping.
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