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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for over 50 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband.

TCS: When the World Turns Completely Upside Down

Posted on September 4, 2023 by wordcloud9

        Good Morning! ______________________________ “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin “Said the Sun to the Moon–’When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in … Continue reading →

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TCS: I Toss My Shoes Overboard, Because―

Posted on August 28, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges________________ “Have you ever heard a good joke? If you’ve ever heard someonejust right, with the right pacing,then you’re already on the … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh

Posted on August 21, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Do you think that anger is a sincere emotionor just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”– Andrea Gibson________________ The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of … Continue reading →

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TCS: What’s Good for the Soul

Posted on August 14, 2023 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski _____________ “You are the lens of the world through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other … Continue reading →

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TCS: Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines

Posted on August 7, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “August is the month of the high-sailing hawks …” — John Burroughs, American Naturalist________________ “When I began to listen to poetry, it’swhen I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the … Continue reading →

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TCS: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs

Posted on July 31, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “The self is the least of it.  Let our scars fall in love.”― Galway Kinnell,American Poet___________________ “We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place … Continue reading →

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TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You

Posted on July 24, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” … Continue reading →

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TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road

Posted on July 17, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ___________________________________________ To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go – Mary … Continue reading →

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TCS: For the Love of Dogs

Posted on July 10, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs. – James Thurber _____________ The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the … Continue reading →

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TCS: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye

Posted on July 3, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”– Johann Georg Hamann_____________ “Lock up your libraries if you like; butthere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that youcan set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room … Continue reading →

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