Joy
November 14, 2009
- I recently came across some photos of me when I was first born and others from when I was about 3 or 4 years old. One of them was of my mom holding me, another of my father holding me. There was a photo of me between my two big brothers and one of my two brothers with their arms around each other in their little sailor suits. As I looked at the photos I thought of what a happy time that ...
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November 4, 2009
- I'ts been 8 weeks since the launch of Dream Raider, we have had success on our own selling the book but had not heard at all from our publisher. Now not being a big player in the market we understood that we probably would not make it into the large retail chains. (That was explained to us when we signed up.) What we were after however, was a foot in the door which we now had. We realised that ...
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October 12, 2009
- October 12JOY IS NOT ENOUGHI was driving around in my car, eating a meltingly ripe persimmon. On the radio came a fiddle-playing band performing their rendition of In The White Room. I was traveling with the three drafts of my first step, version one consisting of 690-some words and the final consisting of only four. Joy is not enough. That’s it. The whole thing. Today my life is unmanageable ...
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October 12, 2009
- Sitting at my favorite place where I contemplate__there I am moved by a thought. I am grateful to be so close to such greatness that I am moved to tears__sometimes.There are moments of clarity a writer brings me where once none.There are moments of joy when anothers joy is shared.There are moments of compassion when I am emotionally moved by anothers life story.There are moments of pure ...
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October 5, 2009
- Yesterday I was looking over some quotes in my TellTale Souls material for an upcoming workshop when I came across a quote from Joyce Carol Oates from her novel, Missing Mom, which I find apropos to encouraging folks to write mother memoir."last timeLast time you see someone and you don't know it will be the last time. And all that you know now, if only you'd known then. But you didn't ...
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October 4, 2009
- October 4 BELLS The bells are ringing but no one sings. There are no peals of laughter and that’s just fine, for pleasure is not the only response to sound. Shock and distain are other options, too. I have what I want in relationship to the buzz in my ear, equal opportunity attitude, pro and con. Some songs bring joy when they end. I have to lower my expectation of pleasure ...
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September 29, 2009
- Is the reason the drum resonates so much with my being is that not only does it echo my heart beat, or what my heart beat could be, but because it is probably one of the oldest, most raw musical instruments—one of the oldest forms of expression, along with the human voice? The deep bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ~ tap-tap-tap, ting-ting, ting-ting, ting-ting. And the voice aaaaouhhh, aaaaouhhh, ...
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September 23, 2009
- Time.com featured a wonderful photo spread on Prague this week. Apparently, they’re naming Prague, and consequently the Czech Republic, as one of the “hippest” travel destinations. What a wonderful spotlight for a well-deserving country! So, now, I guess I can say I live in one of the hippest places in the world. Interesting … From my perspective, Czech culture has a deep soul. Many days ...
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September 12, 2009
- What's in a Cover? I thought when Arirang: The Bamboo Connection was published it had the most beautiful cover I could imagine for the story. The romance of Greek mythology figures throughout the novel, and the Parthenon on the bright red cover, two gold bamboo rings representing the unrequited love , and the deep red of the Orient combine to intrigue the reader to delve into a story of ...
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August 20, 2009
- Introduction: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” --Maya Angelou (1928 - ) “The most important matter in life is your relationship to the Infinite.”-- Author Unknown You were born to walk with God; so why would you walk ...
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