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Nov.18.2011
O god, why am I on this beautiful earth?At each turn of life I fear threatened deathWhere do I find my self among the crowd?I have no freedom to speak even loud
I am shattered and totally brokenMentally down and inwardly shakenWhat has been left behind for consolation?Bitter memory with horror like...
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Nov.07.2011
Well, I truly got out of my comfort zone while our ensemble cast performed the play, The World of Carl Sandburg written by Norman Corwin with modifications by Jann Graham Glann (the director) and Rob Smith (one of the members of the ensemble and the author of McGowan's Return and other titles...
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Oct.31.2011
As I have noted elsewhere, when I finished writing The Man Clothed in Linen, I realized that I probably had begun writing it as a boy. It then took five decades to put it on paper. My religious status is "cultural Christian." I was raised and educated in that tradition--intensely. At one point I...
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Oct.27.2011
I've been watching the news, reading wall posts on Facebook and now I'm feeling cranky. Why? It's all the Wall Street stuff. I came of age during the Vietnam protests. I know about protesting something that's unfair and certainly that was a war we shouldn't have been in but, ironically, after the U...
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Oct.16.2011
Sit down (unless you are one of those authors who write standing up) and start. This is the only advice you will get which will actually work. All the rest are technicalities to the work in progress.
There is a (probably aphocryphal) story concerning Winston Churchill (who also wrote a hell...
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Oct.07.2011
Jeanette Winterson
1 Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
2 Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether.
3 Love what you do.
4 Be honest with yourself....
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Sep.26.2011
In Maine I breathe oxygen
winged west from trees in Kenya
planted by Wangari Maathai,
as she breathed
oxygen from the maple rising
here ninety feet above me,
blowing east to Africa.
For the greatest gift
we can share ---
we can share breath
and
freedom.
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Sep.18.2011
Anna Karenina – Section Seven, by Leo Tolstoy
image via hostilework.blogspot.com
There’s been a slowly fructifying issue in the story to date, and I haven’t been giving it its due: that Lévin is slowly creeping toward an existential showdown within himself over religious belief. In this...
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Sep.14.2011
From my scattered and eclectic reading of existentialist texts over the years, the following basic beliefs stand out for me. I hope other members will post comments below on their understanding of the core beliefs of existentialism and whether they think this outlook is a healthy and/or...
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Aug.25.2011
Ad Placed by Atheists on City Buses in Des Moines, Iowa
According to a study at the University of Minnesota, atheists are a group of people in America that are hated more than both LGBTs (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders) and Muslims. Still, in spite of this social disapproval, the...
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