Finding Poetry
My friend Pat Laster http://www.patlaster.com/ recently commented about found poems. In a nutshell, found poems are those little surprises you unearth while reading books, articles, essays, or other works. The words, or just a phrase or two, leap at you as being particularly crafted or full of imagery or feeling, or could be rife with rhythm […]
Just For Fun Friday 01/17/2014
Singing the Blues. Do you fight the blues and the depression when things are tough? Try to ignore them and hope they’ll will go away if you don’t acknowledge them? Well-meaning friends remind us God doesn’t give us more than we can handle (and don’t you wish he didn’t have so much faith in […]
Sharpening the Saw
I went to a workshop a few years ago when the instructor talked about ‘sharpening the saw’. She said that woodcutters often take an afternoon a week just to work on their tools, justifying the time spent with the time saved. You see, it’s much quicker to cut a log with a clean saw with sharp […]
Recalculating
I’m not making resolutions. I’m recalculating. And why wait until ‘after the first of the year’? Every day is always the first day of MY new year. We think of New Years resolutions as a declaration to change the way we do something or to do something we feel we need to do. In a moment of clarity, […]
Just For Fun Friday 12/20/13
Have you begun your final countdown? Is there someone, perhaps a child, that you still need a gift for? Give a Book! I know I don’t have to tell you writers – but a book is the best gift of all. It gives every time he/she picks it up. A book is more than just, […]
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