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Daily Diversion #118: It’s Happening, It’s Really Happening
After a month spent collecting boxes, I’ve started packing. I’m saving my books for last, because the thought of putting them out of sight for a few weeks nearly makes me weep.
Moving
“Home is the nicest word there is.”-Laura Ingalls Wilder
Daily Diversion #117: Alone Again, Naturally
This morning, I woke up next to our warm dogs in a cold bed. The Chef is back in Indiana. What could ever offer me appropriate solace? Why, a book on George Bernard Shaw and a hot cup of tea!
Shaw and Tea to the Rescue
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
The Dead Writers Round-Up: April 13th-15th
- Jean de La Fontaine died on 4/13/1695. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” (Fables)
- Sameul Beckett was born on 4/13/1906. “James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.” (More Pricks than Kicks; Murphy; Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Molloy; Ohio Impromptu) Continue reading
Inspiration Board: 12th April 2013
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Daily Diversion #116: “Nature” is What We See*
Whenever I hike through the 733 acres of our local cemetery, I have to stifle the compulsion to declaim poetry to an audience of tombstones, trees, and birds. Instead, I turn the words inward, or whisper them under my breath. The shadow-poets I prefer change with the seasons. If winter’s sharp, cold, stinging reach is perfect for Sylvia Plath, then the gloriously still warmth of spring is the natural home for the distilled, profound and subtle Emily Dickinson.
Two forlorn graves and clumps of wildflowers are the perfect audience for Emily’s poems.
*“Nature” is what we see” is the opening line from an Emily Dickinson poem.
Daily Diversion #115: As Fast As We Can
Take a seat
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Algernon Charles Swinburne is Ready for His Close-Up
Algernon Charles Swinburne died on 10 April 1909. In addition to being ever-ready for a good close-up…
…he was quite an accomplished and well-rounded writer.
QUOTE: “For winter’s rains and ruins are over,/And all the season of snows and sins;/The days dividing lover and lover,/The light that loses, the night that wins.”
SOME WORKS: Mary Stuart; The Sisters; Atalanta in Calydon; Songs of Two Nations; A Century of Roundels; A Study of Shakespeare.
A KEEPSAKE:
A Swinburne Poetry Selection at Professor Booknoodle. $25.00
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“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”-T.S. Eliot
Weekly Photo Challenge: Color/Colour
“The earth has music for those who listen.”-George Santayana
“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature –the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”-Rachel Carson
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