Ready to Make Friends with Poetry? ⟶
Writing comes from listening, so I’ve taken quiet steps outside away from the loud to hear better. Eyes open this time to see AND hear–this– the delicate drops of fuchsia, ballerinas fluttering like so many upside-down firecrackers, fragile, full of beauty dropping feathery tendrils to the silent air.
Some poets’ work take your breath away or stop you in your tracks with an ‘aha’! Some will challenge you to see the world a different way than before. Tania Runyan‘s work does all that. Of her many works, her two volumes of poetry based on Scripture prompts intrigued me the most. “Second Sky”…
All the books that I am reading All the books that I have read Make me feel my brain is bleeding Surely ‘twill explode my head. Now here, now there, now everywhere On floors, on desks and tables. In baskets, piles, in drawers and files I’ve stacked as I am able. I love…
“That’s what we storytellers do Mrs. Travers. We restore order through imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.” …
Some days I love being an Elementary Guest Teacher. Some days not so much. Today was one of those days. They are dissecting the stories deciding the children should ‘level’ their love of literature, as if they could explode the mystery of words and flatten it, equalize the field of flowers that are…
My husband loves to fly kites. We recently spent four days at the Oregon Coast and he was very much looking forward to getting some ‘air time.’ Not much you can do, though, if you have no wind. So we just waited. And while we waited we sat in our beach chairs and read…