thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to Johnny Depp just for the sheer joy of it. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it …
How to make a positive from an extremist’s actions: Use your moral imagination.
I think it is fairly clear how I feel about human rights. I'm a fan of them. For everyone. Even for people with whom I disagree. Maybe even especially for people with whom I disagree. That's what human rights means. Not just rights for the people who love me and …
poetry wednesday: by which he meant too many to count, but could only say it in counting.
The Way -Albert Goldbarth The sky is random. Even calling it “sky” is an attempt to make a meaning, say, a shape, from the humanly visible part of shapelessness in endlessness. It’s what we do, in some ways it’s entirely what we do—and so the devastating rose of …
found art tuesday: kitchen chalkboard
We have a lot of different things installed in our house at Tess' eye level. We had them there for Emma, too, when she was younger. It seems only fair. Tiny shelves, door knobs and latches, and a chalkboard in the kitchen screwed right into the end of the island …
mindful monday.
Do one thing to encourage a young artist today. It's "International Find a Way to Encourage a Young Artist" Day. My thanks to Kathryn Ruth Schuth for pointing me to this video. I do so love it on so many levels. Do we ever know what is in another's mind, …
stepping stone sunday: be a rock fairy (and perhaps win some rock fairy magic)
I arrived just 10 minutes before the reading was to begin. A four-hour Delta Airlines delay had left me with few options for actually getting there at all. While others lined up to talk to the gate agent in the tiny Asheville airport about this impending doom, I went back …
what one thing can you do tomorrow to encourage a young artist?
Why do we insist that young artists do something practical? Tomorrow, let's insist that they celebrate their creative spirit. Did you know that tomorrow is "International Find a Way to Encourage a Young Artist" Day? What one thing can you do tomorrow to encourage a young artist? Perhaps it is …
a blessed Eid al-Fitr…
To all my Muslim friends, a blessed Eid al-Fitr. Kul 'am wa enta bi-khair! May every year find you in good health!
simple saturday.
A few days ago on Twitter, I had myself a little rant. Maybe it was being in the throes of writing a book, pages all around, words falling all through me. Maybe it was a hot flash working itself out. Who knows the reason, but the result was that I …
In the book of life, may your name be written in the adventure section.
Last year around this time, I went to Madison, Wisconsin, to stand in a beautiful bookstore and weep like a river, like a weeping willow, like a woman who is reading a story aloud for the first time and realizing how very much it means to her. A man from …
