May you find your life as abundant as the stars in heaven, may you share your wealth with others, may others invite you into their embrace, and may all of us reap the bounty of a plentiful harvest of health, hope, happiness, and hearth.
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Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
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Comments on: "Harvest" (28)
Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day Sharon, together with family and friends.
😊💕 miriam
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Thank you so much, Miriam. We did have a wonderful holiday. I hope your week was good for you as well.
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Beautiful thoughts, Sharon! 😀 Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️
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Thank you, Annika. We did have a wonderful holiday. Hoping your week was also a good one.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you, dear friend. I know you’ll have a wonderful time with your family.
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We had such a fun and loving long weekend. Hoping yours was as wonderful, Jacqui, though I think your kids were not able to be home. But I know they were in your thoughts.
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Wishing you the same in abundance.
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Thank you, Peggy. It was an abundant Thanksgiving.
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Wishing you the same, Shari. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank you, Ilene, I hope you also had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Were the Californians able to visit you in Illinois?
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A lovely blessing, Sharon – thank you.
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Thank you, Betty. I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with joy and health.
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Yes it was, thank you Sharon. 🙂
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😀 ❤
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Five “h’s”, and all so appropriate for the season. And here’s hoping for a healthy holiday season (3 more h’s) 😀
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Yes, for everyone.
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And what a BEAUTIFUL thought it is.
Happiest of all Giving my friend
xxx j
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“Happiest of all Giving” – What a lovely way to say it. Thank you, Judy.
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Lovely, Shari
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Thank you, Audrey.
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Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Sharon.
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I did, Irene, thank you for asking. Do you Aussies have a prelude to the winter holidays?
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No, nothing like Thanksgiving. In fact nothing at all. I guess you are going into a cold winter and it is a wonderful time to be festive before hibernating.
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I live in Southern California where it’s rarely really cold for more than a few days in a row, though it can be cool at night. But we don’t get snow ever. I’m hoping for rain like last year but it isn’t forecast for much rain. You’re heading into summer, right?
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You sound like you have a climate like Perth or perhaps Sydney. We have had so much rain of late – Victoria probably got their years average in a day or two, here we are just catching up but boy has it made it muggy. I have perspiration dripping down my face. Yes we are going into summer which I am predicting is going to be long and hot. Hope you get some of the rain your way.
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The long range weather forecast for Southern California is that winter will be cooler than normal with lower than normal rainfall. More rainfall is predicted for Northern California for the winter. Not our best future. I dislike humidity and don’t envy you but would still love some rain.
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I’ll hope for rain for you but not so much that you have problems with it.
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Yep, I’m doing the rain dance!
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