The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
– Pete Seeger
Month: December 2018
haiku 417
chilly day
birds bunch closely
on a wire
Quotable 299
When boys don’t read stories with strong, smart, or otherwise incredible women, it seeps into their brains that these women don’t exist. When they are not taught that they can look up to women, they don’t. This is poisonous to society.
– Jeremy Whitley
haiku 416
determined toddler
pats pepper shaker –
wrong end, though
Quotable 298
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Whenever you create a character you must allow for the existence of irrationality.
– Rita Mae Brown
haiku 415
prairie –
wind turbines seem
to grow wild now
Quotable 297
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
– John Steinbeck
haiku 414
wind bringing
tomorrow’s snow
rattles windows