January 26, 2021
Gleanings
- And then of course there are art’s perennial twin questions: is this any good and who gets to decide? For too long a homogeneous cabal have been the arbiters of taste. But now the times, they are a changing. The house of poetry has built new wings. And some of the old guard are….well old and scared, it seems like.
- So, I wonder. I do not know. But as I wonder, in all my unknowingness, I know there is so much wonder.
- I’m holding 42 jujubes in my hand, my past and future, and I’m asking myself, I mean truly asking myself, “what are you going to do with them”
- The thing is, though… maintenance takes time and work. Attention takes time and work. Everything worth doing or having takes time and work.
- Fermentation brings me joy — and delicious food. My kitchen is like a laboratory.
- Patricia Highsmith is most often categorized as a genre crime writer, thanks in large part to the well-known film adaptations of her novels Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. But while this classification is fine as far as it goes, it doesn’t go nearly far enough
- So, should you write for the market? My first answer might surprise you…
- Scrolling through Twitter one morning, as one does, I saw that someone posted a video with the caption, “turn up your sound” but I mis-read it as turn up your soul. We see what we need to see sometimes.
- How many is 400,000? How many is 20,000?
- The book manages to dance with all of these weighty themes and still maintain a light touch, and a wicked sense of humour.
- By the summer of 2018 I started asking myself if it would it be more helpful for us if I read one more book, or if we sat on our deck in the sunshine, feeding the ducks, just being together in the moment?
- Pain is a side-effect, not the goal, and it is most certainly not a reward.
- What I appreciate about Sarah Graham‘s flower paintings, is that they aren’t pretty. We have enough of those in the world.
- On a recent walk in the forest, carrying my camera to record the silent beauty, I was particularly interested in all the mosses.
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I’ve only reached about a third of them so far but I have to say I love it when I can identify someone’s post by the sentence you select. But, in truth, sometimes I had already read their post. But not always. I really enjoy many of these gleanings and have discovered some genuinely interesting points of view. Thank you for including me.
My pleasure!! So glad to have connected with you and your blog, Diane.