It’s amazing how much you can get away with that could be considered polemic as long as it’s funny. As soon as it ceases to be funny, your readers start feeling preached to and rebel.
– Lionel Shriver
Month: April 2022
haiku 566
winter storm nears –
first few snowflakes
cross the county line
Quotable 447
There’s a saying in all writers’ rooms – it’s either fear or faith. You’re either trying to satisfy your guess about other people’s expectations, or you’re working through the genuine and authentic possibilities of the material.
– David Milch
haiku 565
birdfeeder sways
when woodpecker
pushes off
Quotable 446
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
haiku 564
warm December day
she bags up
November’s leaves
Quotable 445
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott
haiku 563
chattering raccoon
answers my call
for the cat