Before I get too wrapped up in plans and company and cooking, here is something you must listen to/read. Click on this link and turn up your speakers if you’ve got them: A child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas.
And now winter begins. I should feel bleak today. I should be thinking of death, the dead, but I don’t. I think of the bulbs below ground and the buds on the trees in just a few months (well, four or five months but let’s not quibble). My attempt at positivity. At believing that this is a day of rebirth instead of one of … Read More "Oh no, I am sure that this tree will be as heavy with fruit next spring as my fingers are with dough this day."
Two days ago I shoved my scale underneath the bathroom sink. It is unreachable and I have eaten three chocolate chip cookies so far this morning. The temperatures are soaring into the mid-thirties and I’m thinking of spring, ground that it is not icy. Mud and tulips but it’s going to be winter in two more days. Remember: once you get past that hump … Read More This All You Really Need to Know
Here’s the little tree we lit up at the end of our driveway. It looks a bit sad in this photo but it’s actually quite lovely to see against the dark woods at night.
Got information about this literary travel business in email today and thought I’d share because it sounds like a cool idea for a trip: http://www.thewordtravels.com. I would like to go on the Dylan Thomas Trail.
For the past several months, I’ve had the pleasure to work as the guest editor at my beloved SmokeLong Quarterly. Not only have I been fortunate enough to have been published in SmokeLong a couple of times but I count the editors there as artists I admire and as friends. My time working with them was delicious and I shall miss our interactions. Today … Read More SmokeLong Quarterly issue #11: I Am Bursting with Pride
Sorry I’ve been so quiet of late. I’d be seriously remiss, though, if I did not lead you in the direction of this amazing story: Electricity, by Mr. Jeff Landon, a writer whose great big heart inspires me.
Some great stuff I’ve read online recently: Work, by Michael Stigman Beans, by Mary Corinne Powers On a Saturday Afternoon by Aimee Bender Last but certainly not least, I urge you to visit Pia Ehrhardt’s blog and read her haunting and shattering first-hand accounts of life in the aftermath of Katrina.
As far as the whole “happy holidays” shopping debate (I had no idea it was such an issue, but apparently the creepy “American Family Association” is freaking out over it) goes, I like what the editorial page editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has to say–MERRY, MERRY … WHATEVER: Perhaps the oddest thing about this cultural imbroglio is the insistence by some Christian purists that … Read More
Here’s a very cool new blog you’ll want to bookmark–Artists and Encores. Jim Geezil, the blog owner, offers this description: I’m very interested in many forms of art. So, I’ll be putting together a showcase of many types: music, visual arts, writing, films, etc., by drawing connections of their similarities. I might also add anything else I find interesting regarding the arts.
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