mama cat
finds a soft ball –
second kittenhood
Month: November 2021
Quotable 432
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
haiku 549
covid booster –
dreaming
of Excedrin
Quotable 431
So where do the ideas actually come from? Mostly from getting annoyed about things. Not big issues so much … as the little irritations that drive you wild out of all proportion.
– Douglas Adams
haiku 548
rainy day –
squirrel chatters
in neighbor’s tree
Quotable 430
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder
haiku 547
another blood draw –
telling myself
I deserve chocolate
Quotable 429
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what its about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising … and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.
– Neil Gaiman
haiku 546
putting the cat out –
overhead, a butterfly
makes its escape