I love Jane Kenyon. Fiercely. I do. Here’s a beautiful essay for you–The Moment of Peonies: It is the month of peonies—the week, the day, and the hour of peonies. In late March their red asparagus-like shoots began to push toward the intensely blue spring sky with its scudding clouds. Through April and May the stalks gained height and turned green; buds formed and … Read More "And we are blessed, we are undone by them."
My husband and I are two of the few people who found Amelie really annoying (I’m not a huge fan of whimsy). However, Dirty Pretty Things kicks ass and I watched Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement last night and found it really beautiful, moving. So, I’m two for three in liking movies which star Audrey Tautou. The premise of A Very … Read More watch it
Read this sentence this morning and am mulling it over–from And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos: What I did not know when I was very young was that nothing can take the past away: the past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for the dying. Yes. Whether you recall the past or not is another issue, but as it existed it … Read More "like a placenta for the dying"
These are quick. Will take you no time at all to read them all and enjoy. Go on. Do it. Broken, by Mary Miller Blood, by Elizabeth Ellen Two Fictions, by Kim Chinquee IN THE QUIET, DON QUIXOTE, by Girija Tropp Caveat Emptor, by Steven Gullion A Survey of the Works of Ernesto Veto, by Donavan Hall
YES! My buddy Robin Slick has a great story (love this story!) live at Juked today. Go on and read it; you know you want to: Star Man
St. Patrick–let’s discuss. From Omer Englebert’s The Lives of the Saints: Ireland, Scotland, and Wales compete for the honour of having given birth to St. Patrick. His father, the deacon Calpunius, had a farm beside the sea. About 404 it was pillage by pirates who carried off Patrick, aged sixteen. They sold him to an islander who employed him for six years in tending … Read More "And our very pains command you"
May the road rise to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face.And rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet again,May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
Here’s a retreat I wish I could go on, but I can’t, unfortunately, so I’ll post about it here instead: Creating Space Retreat: The Law of Attraction for Writers.May 12-14th, 2006 Join writers Rebecca Lawton and Jordan Rosenfeld at Creating Space, a restorative retreat designed to help you attract the writing time, inspiration, and life that you aspire to lead. This thoroughly enjoyable weekend … Read More Creating Space Retreat
SmokeLong Quarterly Issue #12 is live and I am deeply honored to be one of the contributors with my piece Prey (also, as are all the contributors, I was interviewed about my piece). Most poignant to me in this issue, were the letter from the editor–Dave Clapper, the interview with outgoing fiction editor–the beloved Kathy Fish, and the very cool announcement of The Kathy … Read More SmokeLong Quarterly Issue #12 is Live–read it
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