Like everyone else I know, I’ve been obsessing about the headlines, about France, about Syria. Closer to home, about homelessness. I came across this poem as I was sorting through papers in my writing cabin, and I thought it was good advice for such times. “Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then […]
Video post. Source: Poem four: Prayer before birth – by Louis MacNeice
Tomorrow we shall have to think up signs, sketch a landscape, fabricate a plan on the double page of day and paper. Tomorrow we shall have to invent, once more, the reality of this world. –Octavio Paz, “January 1st” (translated by Eliz. Bishop) For my […]
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren’t getting done quickly. -Freema Agyeman I’ve been busy meeting a big deadline, and of course doing some serious procrastination (whenever possible) away from my desk, but here’s a quick reminder — I will be one of a handful of readers on Thursday, […]