THE MUSE
I follow where she leads me along my lonely road, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping and everything in between. The primary distinction of the artist [and poet] is that he [she] must actively cultivate that state which most men necessarily must avoid: the state of being alone, James Baldwin (1924-1987)I try to be gentle with The Muse, but she is not always gentle with me, often-times ...
Pablo Neruda's Twenty Poems of Love, and...
Poema 6 Te recuerdo como eras en el último otoño.Eras la boina gris y el corazón en calma.En tus ojos peleaban las llamas del crepúsculoY las hojas caían en el agua de tu alma. Apegada a mis brazos como una enredadera.las hojas recogían tu voz lenta y en calma.Hoguera de estupor en que mi sed ardía.Dulce jacinto azul torcido sobre mi alma. Siento viajar tus ojos y es distante el ...
Captain's Blog - Stardate January 16, 2009
I have been locking horns with Mr. Data again - he's been wrestling once again with some of the thornier points of Cartesian metaphysics, god bless his little android heart. He seems particularly confounded by category mistakes -he seems unable, for instance, to be able to grasp the notion of heroism - instead reducing it to what he considers to be the situational and physical components inherent ...
One Great Poem a Day
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem work....i.e. the kernel of what resonates, rather than how it's achieved - the assumption being that it is achieved via craft, beauty, music, imagery, metaphor, whatever....(opinions may vary, results not typical, etc...)Does that sound like a (kinda ...
Setting the goal
During some years of my life, I have been hard-pressed to make myself put words on paper. I've done all the exercises of my Motivated Writers' Life yahoo e-list, hoping to spur the muse, or at least the motivation. I've read and watched movies and wrestled myself to the ground, hoping for a plot. A page. A paragraph. Anything.This isn't one of those years. I've written pretty consistently over ...
Plunder Blog! As of motivations in Gaza...
This is what, according to leading Israeli historian Ian Pappe, Israel is telling to he world in Gaza. We'll see in the next hours if Obama will receive the "magic" gift of a truce, confirming his administration in the good feelings thus far abundantly expressed towards the murderous Isreali leadership....Israel's Message by Ilan Pappe (LRB, Jan. 14)In 2004, the Israeli army ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! OBAMA WINS!
I am not so sure I can drink another glass of champagne. I love champagne for any reason. But clinking my glass last night and today was more than just celebration. It was connecting our past in America to our future of America.Watching Obama win the election last night thrilled me. It linked me back to my history and to how far we have come.I posted on my blog today about wondering if ...
If Breast is Best, Why use pumps?
If Breast is Best, Why Are Women Bottling Their Milk? Jill Lepore's article in the New Yorker explores the rise in the popularity of breast pumps.
Your computer finds rhyming words. Writing profound...
Write Rhymes : As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it. (Ain't none for orange.)
Mushrooms
One of the reasons to be in France in the autumn is to eat wild mushrooms. There is a long tradition of mushroom foraging in France and just last week the television featured a story about harvesting mushrooms in the forest of Fontainebleau. This forest, which surrounds the chateau, is not far from Paris. The French nobility were smart in building their homes close to large woods, which provided ...
