I Could Love You That Way The way a woman cleans house, tying her hair in a kerchief, knocking down cobwebs with a broom. All day gathering clothes and toys and books from beneath the beds, vacuuming under the couch cushions, scrubbing the drains, polishing the fixtures. I could love you that way, methodically, thoroughly, […]
One of the books I read in preparation for my English 101 class project is Making Habits, Breaking Habits by Jeremy Dean. “This book started,” Dean starts, “with an apparently simple question that seemed to have a simple answer: How long does it take to form a new habit?” (3). He makes short work of the myth […]
“Without play, learning and evolution are impossible. Play is the taproot from which original art springs; it is the raw stuff the artist channels and organizes. Technique itself springs from play, by testing the limits and resistances of our tools.” -Stephen Nachmanovitch (qtd. in Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Rico) Yesterday I had a […]
Over at EIL (Escape into Life) Kathleen Kirk has put together a fabulous collage of pictures and poems about poetry, just in time to make us sit up and notice the last week of Poetry Month. Click on the link to find yourself there 😉 All of the images are from Susan Yount‘s Tarot cards, this […]