Is prose simply easier to write than poetry? Again, not necessarily. Prose can be damnably difficult to write, but it’s been my experience that one can always will oneself to write it. Right now, for instance, because I am busy and lazy in equal measure, I am bashing these sentences out hurriedly before the issue […]
I go to church on Sundays, not to dispel this doubt but to expend its energy, because faith is not a state of mind but an action in the world, a movement toward the world. I read this and wanted to highlight it in hot pink. But the volume I’m reading is a library book, and I’m […]
Today you get more Christian Wiman, this time without commentary. There is nothing for it, the self-doubt, the recriminations, the persistent sense of futility and failure. Acknowledgement no matter how small, a publication or prize, a word of praise from a friend — this is all a sort of alcohol (though widely varying in its […]
At the same time, embracing one’s wholeness makes life more demanding — because once you do that, you must live your whole life. Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak p71 After weeks of acedia, and weeks of openness, this is Week 2 of day compression. I have six “did it!” bubbles filled in, where […]
Movie (hanging out) with B Maintenance; particularly, exercise AND a massage Prepping for next week’s class–for today, printing 13 essays. Tidying up my belated effort to move That Website Look! This blog-posting thing rates pretty high, clocking in at #5! It’s about even with shipping work to another journal. I remembered to work on that, […]
I thought about writing something real, but again I haven’t collected any words. (I did send some out, 3 poems to a contest.) I decided I’d just play a clip of this post’s title…be kind of clever…but digging up that particular clip started taking too long. So instead of a round of “Again, again!” here’s […]
Quiet day: I burned my wordsmithing while coming up with snappy copy. I joined a new “thang” — our church has gained momentum in putting together a women’s ministry, and I’ve joined the first coordinating team/board/whathaveyou. (For clarity: we have many wonderful groups, missions, studies, and events geared toward women. What we don’t have is […]
26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel […]
Nope. This is not about Pokémon Go, the game sensation that’s sweeping my environs. This is about… Today, in the midst of the usual solitude that I was spending almost aimlessly, a friend of mine texted me out of the blue. And I had opportunity, time, and attention to connect with her. To commiserate. I […]
Here I am, quietly minding my own business (stop it! I am!), and land here: Pursuing the Intersections: How to Be Published; How to Be Real // Ruminate Magazine which begins with the quote “Being published is being published. Being a real poet is being a real poet. Sometimes they intersect.” Deborah Keenan and later […]
