Quotable…
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” -Anatole France
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Entries by Bethany
Bob and Jack’s Writing Blog
Last night I read a few of my poems at the splendid It’s About Time Reading Series at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library. Jack Remick gave the featured craft talk, “Prosody on Prose.” I thought a good use of my space today would be to link to his blog, which he […]
What It Could Look Like
This summer my daughter Annie took an on-line math class. She needed to complete it successfully so that she could begin a “math for educators” sequence this fall. It was a struggle — and it’s not over yet (she didn’t pass with a C, but is trying to make up some assignments). Sometime in the depths […]
The Heartbeat
My friend Carolynne, feeling certain that my pileated woodpecker was a messenger, went on-line and found this source for me: Conscious Art Studios. I think she’s right. Here’s part of what she found: “Woodpeckers are known for and symbolic of the drumming, and of course within that the heartbeat. They are immediately distinctive when one hears […]