“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” -Albert Schweitzer Another week has gone by, along with another solitude Sunday to appreciate. I look forward to the week ahead. I’m glad I have Sundays to take time to remind myself who I am and whatContinue reading “Solitude Sunday”
Tag Archives: Poetry
The Best Part About Being a Writer
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth Filling the paper with the breathing of my heart is the best feeling in the world. Finally getting all those scattered thoughts and feelings down on paper is the best way to bring things back into order. If there was anything about writing thatContinue reading “The Best Part About Being a Writer”
Fall Gratitude
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” — Percy Bysshe Shelley New England has had such a beautiful fall so far. I’ve been enjoying the weather, my walks, myContinue reading “Fall Gratitude”
Needed this Poem
Quest By Georgia Douglas Johnson The phantom happiness I sought O’er every crag and moor; I paused at every postern gate, And knocked at every door; In vain I searched the land and sea, E’en to the inmost core, The curtains of eternal night Descend—my search is o’er. This poem hit home for meContinue reading “Needed this Poem”
Letting Go
My inner work this week is to focus on letting go of old beliefs. It feels like I’m walking in uncharted territory. It took me a couple of weeks to get into a new routine, but I think I’ve gotten a good idea of my energy levels along with the actions I’m ready to focusContinue reading “Letting Go”
The Forces of My Writing
The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide meContinue reading “The Forces of My Writing”
About Reading and Writing
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost My first question, is there such thing as too many surprises? I like surprises, but I also like to know things. I do appreciate a good surprise cry in a story. oh. IContinue reading “About Reading and Writing”
James Baldwin
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin, Notes ofContinue reading “James Baldwin”
Magic Carpet
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon Writing is everything for me. To be honest, writing is everything for me, but that’s too vague to write about. Writing keeps me present, but it’s also a healthyContinue reading “Magic Carpet”
Our Place
*Our Place* On the edge with fish that nip and monsters that drag you so deep you can’t see the light of day.Inside black books never banned because they’re only read by a select few.Beneath the drums that lift and expose you all at once.Teeth, it’s always between themtruth,not hidden but not recognized either.Our placeContinue reading “Our Place”
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