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Thankful Thursday: Mail Call
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Hello, it’s Thankful Thursday.
Thank you for showing up, and keeping me accountable, appreciative, and grateful for things big and small. Attention attracts gratitude, and gratitude expands joy, and my gratitude grows when shared with you.
Some days are more difficult than others, to find the good, to comb through the junk. Here’s what I've found to appreci
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The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
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Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease
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2009
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The Triumphant Spirit: Portraits & Stories of Holocaust Survivors...Their Messages of Hope & Compassion
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Thin Skin
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Moments of the Soul: Poems of Meditation and Mindfulness by Writers of Every Faith
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Sweet Grief: Paintings & Poems on Love and Loss
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2012
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Forecast: a word-art collaboration: Featuring horoscope-inspired poems by Drew Myron and interpretive abstract paintings by Tracy Weil
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A long slog. I couldn't muster care for the characters, and finally gave up. Is it me? It might be me. Years ago I was riveted by "My Education" . . . but for subsequent novels have not felt the same enthusiasm. ...more |
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Stephen Dunn wrote one of my favorite poems (A Secret Life) but I'm sad to say this essay-memoir-how-to tome left me cold. Ponderous and academic, with (dull) stories of his childhood. But I still love this poem: A Secret Life Why you need to have one i ...more |
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“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.”
― Thin Skin
― Thin Skin
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.”
― Thin Skin
― Thin Skin
“Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.”
― Thin Skin
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.”
― Thin Skin
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking.”
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
“We still & always want waking.”
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.”
― And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
― And Her Soul Out Of Nothing