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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Daily Diversion #183: Ghost Tree
I’ve decided to shelve all serious writing for the rest of the year. There is so much life stuff to do: baking, wrapping gifts, cooking, drinking mulled wine, watching holiday movies, and spending time with family and friends. Oh, and organizing my writing schedule and goals for 2014. Fear not! I’ll still be hanging around Ye Olde WordPress, posting easy and feather-light things. Like this:
Ghost Tree
Writers Enjoying Winter, Part One
The Fitzgerald Family Celebrating Christmas
Ernest, Hadley, and Jack Hemingway in Schruns, Austria (1925)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle enjoying a ski holiday
Sylvia Plath and Marcia Brown Stern (courtesy Alumnae Association of Smith College)
[Beautiful Wisdom from] Joe Strummer: 21 August 1952-22 December 2002
Joe Strummer Quote
Daily Diversion #182: Sledding Eeyore
Eeyore enjoying some winter fun!
Sledding Eeyore
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Writers in Art: Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice, 1918
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice, 1918
[Book Nerd Links] Heart of Darkness Illustrated by Matt Kish
This is brilliant…
Illuminated “Heart of Darkness,” lavishly illustrated by Matt Kish [courtesy boing boing]
Be sure to come back and let me know what you think!
Daily Diversion #181: Seasonal (Re)Reading
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
“Claus held fast and the next moment was flying so swiftly over the snow that he could not see the trees as they whirled past. Up hill and down dale, swift as an arrow shot from a bow they dashed, and Claus shut his eyes to keep the wind out of them and left the deer to find their own way.”
Claus Discovers Humanity
The Dead Writers Round-Up: 20th-24th December
- James Hilton died on 12/20/1954. “The right mixture of caring and not caring-I suppose that’s what love is.” (Knight Without Armour; Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest)
- John Steinbeck died on 12/20/1968. “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” (The Red Pony; Tortilla Flat; Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; The Moon is Down; Cannery Row; The Pearl; East of Eden)
- Denise Levertov died on 12/20/1997. “You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.” (The Double Image; Life in the Forest; Candles in Babylon)
- Dame Rebecca West was born on 12/21/1892. “It’s the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.” (The Return of the Soldier; The Fountain Overflows; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; 1900)
- Anthony Powell was born on 12/21/1905. “Books do furnish a room.” (A Dance to the Music of Time; Afternoon Men) Continue reading
Daily Diversion #180: Our Holiday Tree, In Negative
Our holiday tree, in negative:
Our holiday tree,in negative. I kind of wish it really looked like this…
Bonus points if you can guess the albums on the wall.
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