Month: October 2008
31 Reasons I Love October-Day 7
“The morns are meeker than they were,The nuts are getting brown;The berry’s cheek is plumper,The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf,The field a scarlet gown.Lest I should be old-fashioned,I’ll put a trinket on.”– Emily Dickinson, Continue reading 31 Reasons I Love October-Day 7
I Remember
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”Kevin Arnold In several poetry workshops and in many craft books on poetry Joe Brainard’s book I Remember Continue reading I Remember
31 Reasons I Love October-Day 6
31 Reasons I Love October-Day 5
31 Reasons I Love October-Day 4
A Cake of portable soup
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.James Boswell I love this image the hard dense brick of soup-add hot water-and then a full steaming bowl of Continue reading A Cake of portable soup
31 Reasons I Love October-Day 3
Late blooming flowers extend the summer. “In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thoughtand care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we Continue reading 31 Reasons I Love October-Day 3
Keeping a Journal, a Diary, a Blog
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.Walter Scott I’m reading a book on memoir Continue reading Keeping a Journal, a Diary, a Blog