Just a note for your hospitality,
for numerous couch pillows, always on the floor

To your collection of piano sonatas
dark as coal coffee,
pine scented candles

I appreciated the fresh biscuits
your handmade quilts
the shimmery window in your den
framed with small Christmas lights
all year…

1. What is your name?

Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen.

2. Tell us something about you, your background, and what you've been up to lately?

I've just completed my BA in Theatre and Film studies, after spending far far too much of my life not achieving much of anything in the decade or so since I first tried working towards a degree. Which actually happens to be relevant to the next question...

3. How did you discover Everything, and how did you…

This writeup is in part a response to Dennis Lehane by Bitriot. Because while I love his writing very much he could not be more wrong.

"Such, in brief, was the physical and mental nature of the third human species. In spite of innumerable distractions, the spirit of the Third Men kept on returning to follow up the thread through a thousand variegated cultures. Again and again folk after folk would clamber out of savagery

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It doesn't take much to make me smile

I found this today- mostly by accident.
This is from a site called:

http://www.howtoteachkids.info/

It is a short lesson on teaching kids to write their own sentences.

Pick one idea that is not a complete sentence such as "pretty and red."
Explain that a sentence is about someone or something. Ask, "What is it that is 'pretty and red?' Our sentence has to tell us."