Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Let’s Wrap It Up….
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
“How can someone go from being so important in your life to this in a matter of days? You’re just going to let the phone ring? I thought you guys were close?” he poked at the fire with the fireplace shovel as [...]
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I think no matter what your choice of profession, being authentic is a challenge, is necessary, and is courageous. I was checking out a new music artist the other day that sent me an email. On that site was a video. The artist had played a gig in a city. In the video the performer [...]
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
New quotes about artists and mood swings … Current mood: cooky/wacky Category: Writing and Poetry
These are somehow comforting to me… or at least a confirmation that I’m not squirrel bait….
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.” - Ernest [...]
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Monday, September 01, 2008
In Memorium 09-06-07
Category: Life
I can’t remember the first time that I read anything by Madeleine L’Engle. But I would imagine that it was A Wrinkle in Time like most people. I do however remember vividly when I fell in love with Madeleine L’Engle’s writing. I read that same book aloud [...]
Filed under: Christianity, art, hobby, life, nature, poetry, purpose, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on September 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Fly
“Sara! The fence is right there! What do I do?” cried out Maggie in absolute panic.
Sweaty and sticky, now her legs were covered with damp, itchy, coarse horse hair. The smell of dry dusty hay, damp earth, green grass, and sticky sweat, flooded her nostrils. She leaned in clutching the coarse, dark, mane [...]
Filed under: short story, writing on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Ken Gire records some dialogue from the courtroom scene from the 1994 movie “Nell” in the opening of his book, The Reflective Life: Becoming more Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life. (In the translated version of Nell’s speech) Mr. Guire writes,
You have big [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Uncategorized, kids, life, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on July 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
I know that for the moment I am a bit of writer poser. I don’t have anything to show for the effort at the moment other than a few cute blogs. But I have a dead line with my prof. set and I am scrambling like mad to get it done. I am thinking, working, [...]
Filed under: kids, life, relationships, writing on June 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
“The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.” -Katherine Paterson
(the lovely older lady is Ms. Paterson the author of numerous books including A [...]
Filed under: Christianity, art, life, purpose, wonder, writing on June 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
I really love this song. Although for my interp, I am not so crazy about the line that says, “I broke them all for you”, but if you left that out the following song would speak to purpose for me. It speaks to “story” for me and what I love writing, reading , knowing, and remembering [...]
Filed under: Christianity, art, life, poetry, purpose, relationships, wonder, writing on June 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
In the book, by Antoine De Saint-Exup`ery, the fox begs the little prince to “tame” him. The fox says,
“One only understands the things that one tames… Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at shops. But there is not shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and [...]
Filed under: life, poetry, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on June 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
