2023-03-23 18:37
M. Elisabeth Norton (American, active 1890s), The Bookman: March, 1895. Lithograph, Portland Art Museum, Gift of Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler.
March is a month of transition in… Read More
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2023-03-21 20:17
Pelican, Windmark Beach, Florida Panhandle, iPhone Shots, February 2023, photo ©DebraJHobbs2023☽. All rights reserved.
The new moon peaks in Aries this morning. Woke up… Read More
2023-02-20 17:26
Curly-Q, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, February 18th, 2023, photo © 2023 by Liz Schultz. All rights reserved.
Liz unpacks the spiral shells out of a plastic… Read More
2023-02-18 01:29
Ice & Turf, Landing in Minnesota, iPhone Photo, February 16th, 2023, photo © 2023 by Debra J. Hobbs. All rights reserved.
Sun & Surf, St. Joe Beach, Florida, iPhone Photo, Fe… Read More
2023-01-23 17:31
Mourning on the Beach, St. Joe Beach, Florida, iPhone Photo, January 19, 2023, photo © 2023 by Amy S. Gabriel. All rights reserved.
Thinking of my Grandma, who left us 24 years… Read More
2022-07-29 19:15
I was writing in my dreams last night. I kept waking up in the middle of writing. One was about moving. When you move you go through every shred of material possession that you own. Laptops… Read More
2022-07-22 20:15
SpiralBound, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, on the Day of My Solar Return, July 22, 2022, photo © 2022 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Roots that bind. Binding roots… Read More
2022-07-08 16:29
I didn’t know what I wanted to write about this afternoon. It’s Friday, the day I set aside for creative work. I’ve been lax in completing any kind of art. I’ve been… Read More
2022-05-23 16:43
Georgia, Haiku, Bones, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, on the Partial Solar Eclipse, April 30th, 2022, photo © 2022 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Landscape – T… Read More
2020-08-15 19:47
The Bardo, photograph by Debra J. Hobbs, © QuoinMonkey, August 15th, 2020.
I meant to do better. To take more Polaroids, roll more clay, shut up and write. But 2020 had other ideas. Fo… Read More
2020-01-01 20:58
haiku by Shiki (1867 – 1902)
haiku by Shiki (1867 – 1902)
We sojourned to The Book House in Dinkytown last weekend to pick up A House By Itself, a small book Liz had put o… Read More
2019-12-27 19:06
December Bloom, Minneapolis, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, December 24th, 2019, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
On Winter Solstice, after two years of dormancy and a flir… Read More
2019-11-04 13:00
By Marylin Biggs Schultz
Mary Dickens Biggs, grandmother of Marylin Biggs Schultz. Family photo, all rights reserved.
carved into granite
“many hopes are buried here&rd&hell…Read More
2019-11-03 19:14
Reading old journals opens up the past revealing details of thoughts and memories long forgotten. When digging through writing notebooks, I ran across this 20-minute Writing Practice from Ju… Read More
2019-10-19 18:02
Three Loons On Island Lake, October 17th 2019, iPhone Video, Island Lake, near Cromwell, Minnesota, video © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
We are back in the Twin Citi… Read More
2019-10-17 01:48
Island Lake, Cromwell, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, October 16th, 2019, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
We are out of the sauna followed by a dip in Island Lake… Read More
2019-10-15 21:17
View from Marylin’s, Cody, Wyoming, iPhone Shots, May 13th, 2019, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It was a month ago to the hour when my mother-in-law died… Read More
2019-08-18 03:19
Scandia Honeybee, Scandia, Minnesota, iPhone Shots, August 17th, 2019, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Liz and I spent a beautiful morning on a St. Croix riverboat to… Read More
2019-08-12 18:49
Nashville, Tennessee, iPhone Shots, June 27th, 2016, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
View of downtown Nashville on a road trip with Liz. We stopped in Nashville to t… Read More
2019-08-06 23:45
When my brother died last January, I started to walk the willows. It wasn’t until late July that I read our ancestors planted willows for the Dead. And if the branches form a shadow la… Read More
2019-08-04 08:45
Wind in the Willow, April 2019, iPhone Video, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska, Minnesota, video © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I am drawn to the nurturing willow… Read More
2019-07-24 23:46
Slow Walking, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, C-41 film, photo © 2007-2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In the spring of 2019, I signed up for Natalie’s online class Writing… Read More
2016-11-29 01:41
Gratitude, Mandala Series, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2016, photo © 2016 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.Filed under: Art, Gratitude, Holidays, Mandalas, Personal, Practice… Read More
2016-11-05 16:53
Sandhill Crane Migration, October 2016, iPhone Video, Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, Santiago, Minnesota, October 2016, photo © 2016 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Years a… Read More
2016-06-23 03:48
Tornado, June 1959, Droid Shots, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, May 2016, photo © 2016 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In June 1959, a tornado roared over the south rim of the… Read More
2016-06-11 20:21
Prehistoric, Droid Shots, Hill City, South Dakota, June 2016, photo © 2016 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
bone to bone they fly / 50 million years ago / ocean desert sk… Read More
2016-01-05 02:20
January, Droid Shots, St.Paul, Minnesota, January 2016, photo © 2016 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.Filed under: Haiku, Nature, Photography, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Wake Up Tagg… Read More
2015-07-03 20:10
Amor, 2006 by Robert Indiana, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Droid Shots, June 26th, 2014, photo © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
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2015-04-19 20:42
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Record Store Day Highlights, St. Paul & Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2015, photos © 2015 by QuoinMonkey & Liz Anne Schultz. All rights reserved.
We ma… Read More
2015-04-08 02:35
Broken & Unbroken, Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, Kansas City, Missouri, Canon Powershot G6, April 2009, photo © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
eight y… Read More
2015-04-05 00:43
Happy Eostre. The Gift, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2013, photo © 2015 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
season of Eostre:
abundance lives
in the skillful art
of no… Read More
2015-03-29 18:07
Lithograph Stones, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2015, photos © 2015 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
lithograph limestone
the way water repels ink
paper covers rock… Read More
2015-03-22 20:18
Bloom On The Dhobi Tree, Droid Shots, Washington, D.C., June 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
spring equinox
eclipsed by the dark
side of the moon
Spr… Read More
2015-03-15 15:44
Graft, Droid Shots, Washington, D.C., June 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
A half mile from the U.S. Capitol in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery o… Read More
2015-03-08 23:06
We sat in a circle around a ring of snow, inside a ring of stones, inside a ring of kindling. It was damp outside. The moon rose in a foggy black and white photo over the house to the east… Read More
2015-03-08 23:06
We sat in a circle around a ring of snow, inside a ring of stones, inside a ring of kindling. It was damp outside. The moon rose in a foggy black and white photo over the house to the east… Read More
2015-01-24 19:51
-haiga posted on redRavine, Saturday, January 24th, 2015
-Part of a yearly practice to write a short form piece of poetry in my Moleskine journal once a day for the next year. Related to p… Read More
2015-01-11 16:29
Poem For My Father (the way love bends), Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2015, © 2015 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I found out about my father’s death from reading an ob… Read More
2015-01-10 22:45
Thirsty, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2015, haiku & photograph © 2015 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-haiga posted on redRavine, Saturday, January 10th, 2015… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Cattail Bog, Sony NEX Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2012, photo © 2013 by Liz Anne Schultz. All rights reserved. When you live in a land of lakes, you tend to develop an intim… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
icicles. 33/365, Droid 365 Squared, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Groundhog, woodchuck, whistle pig— six more weeks of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Vertical Bubbles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2014, photos © 2014 by Liz anne schultz. All rights reserved. The -22°F drop in air temperature in the Twin Cities this week closed… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
by Willa Cather Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing… Read More
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