One Can't Write All the Time
I just deleted the last blog entry by accident! Whoa! I wanted to say that I've been coming here for writing residencies since 1979. I'm in the same writer's studio I had then, with its reassuring view of the mountain. The mountains are never fickle! I've made good friends here, among them Robert Reeves and Wayne Ferguson, who are beings made of light and humor. They have introduced me to Genevieve Whittemore, a Lynchburg poet, and she has introduced me to Beatrice, her miniature greyhound. Beatrice is helping me to write my next children's book, GAGE THE GREYHOUND WHO SAID NO. Friendships feed the writing and the soul.
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."”
—William Blake
About Marilyn
Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. She is the author of 16 books, including The Love That Moves Me (poetry); Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press; Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press; The...
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Causes Marilyn Kallet Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, ACLU, Amnesty International, Save Darfur.
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There's this former journalist who wants to write his unique history but never got around to it. Been that way for 10 years. I've bothered him enough where I'm sure he'll have finished the first chapter when I stop by again in August. So friendship and a little push help.
You're a good friend to have.
Sometimes the push is the thing. An unfinished work can bepoison--mk