Story Prize 2021, info on finalists here
TrueWest ~ Cheryl Diane Kidder
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Shirley. on Hulu. Starring Elisabeth Moss
But mostly. Mostly, a portrait of a writer creating a work of art. Mostly, a look at the spirit and soul it takes for a woman to live in the world, create in the world, and maintain some sense of self, of sanity when what the world calls for may not be that at all. Delicious experience. Highly, highly recommended. The best.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Unknown woman / ocean
Unknown woman from slides found in a Virginia thrift store in 2015.
Thanks to Aislinn (Ash) Clarke, @AislinnClarke.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
She Walks in Beauty, 1814. Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
She walks
in beauty, like the night
Of
cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all
that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in
her aspect and her eyes;
Thus
mellowed to that tender light
Which
heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade
the more, one ray the less,
Had half
impaired the nameless grace
Which
waves in every raven tress,
Or softly
lightens o’er her face;
Where
thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure,
how dear their dwelling-place.
And on
that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft,
so calm, yet eloquent,
The
smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell
of days in goodness spent,
A mind at
peace with all below,
A heart
whose love is innocent!
Monday, November 30, 2020
Create a commonplace book
Make your own
Bible. Select and collect all
those words
and sentences that in all your
reading have
been to you like the blast of a
trumpet out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John,
and Paul.
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
From the New York Times article: https: Other Writer's Words