Friday, November 14, 2008
Hmm, What am I thinking….
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
I have been spinning Mary Chapin Carpenter’s cd The Calling. (I am also reading a book by Robert Coles, more L’Engle stuff, and Dostoevsky so not all pressure for my ranting here falls on MC2) I really am provoked by her cd. Maybe it’s one of those [...]
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Friday, October 24, 2008
My love affair with L’Engle works….
Current mood: breezy
Category: Writing and Poetry
Every year about this time I begin my L’Engle revival. I start with skimming my favorite of her ficition books in the morning. I try to devour the parts I’ve marked and review the rest in case there’s something new to [...]
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Lyrically Speaking….
Category: Life
So. Here’s what I’m thinking randomly about tonight, lyrically speaking:
“What a lot of fun,
You guys have been real swell,
And there’s not a one
Who can say this ended well.
All those secrets you’ve been concealing
Say you’re happy now,
Once more with feeling…” Whedon, Sweet’s Goodbye, ‘01
“Where do we go from here?
Where do we [...]
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Poetic thoughts from a tv show to remain nameless…
Category: Writing and Poetry
They say art imitates life. Sometimes what I watch feeds me. Sometimes it sympathizes like friends. Sometimes it acts like a mirror or photograph. Great art speaks.
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Pull me out and remind me who I am
You know you have always held my heart
Let’s hear stories about [...]
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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. ~Madeleine L’Engle
I often underestimate the internal battle ground in me as a creative person. It is overwhelming some times how volitile the emotional roller coaster can be when you are suppose to be open and in touch [...]
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I didn’t write this but I am in awe of it. Thought it wise to share.
Words
Be careful of words,even the miraculous ones.For the miraculous ones we do our best,sometimes they swarm like insectsand leave not a sting but a kiss.They can be good as fingers.They can be trusty as the rockyou stick your bottom on.But [...]
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
I so totally agree! Here, here!
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
“Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do. But life isn’t perfect — on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we [...]
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“Where did Pollyanna go?”
She asked me.
“Not always a laugh a minute it seems.”
I smiled slowly, sadly
And shrugged a shoulder
And I watched her and replied,
“Where’s your big dreams?
Seems to me we’re both a little jaded.
Seems to me we’re neither one that tough.”
Cynically she laughed and she nodded adding,
“But whoever would have guessed
It could be so rough.”
Just [...]
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Simple and plain
I keep hearing just tell the story
Keep it simple, make it plain
Don’t add ruffles, don’t add any laces
Just a stripped down model, Plain Jane
Show, don’t tell and certainly don’t preach
They have a right to think; no highfalutin speech
Let them choose for themselves
You don’t need to embellish
There’s no need to make it [...]
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Acid Rain
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
You say things I know are meant just to hurt me
You’re hurting and want to watch someone else bleed
It’s sort of like watching someone else’s wreck on a high way
There’s a macabre strain in you and you feel the need
To lash, and strike, to bite, [...]
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