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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. – Nikos Kazantzakis Maybe thirty years ago, I was about to teach my first class at a coastal writers’ retreat. ‘Feral Writing,’ a particular area of…
It’s when you stop believing in Santa, they start giving you underwear and socks. – Barker Ajax HOVEOX 20pcs Temporary Tattoo Arm Sleeves Arts Fake Slip on Arm Sunscreen Sleeves Body Art Stockings Protector -Designs Tribal, Tiger, Dragon, Skull, and Etc Unisex Stretchable Cosplay Accessories 4.0 out of 5 stars 4,317 ratings List Price: $16.99 $16.99 Details…
A wise, old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke; The less he said, the more he heard. Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird? Seems like people been calling me a wise guy since maybe my third year. As I conclude my seventy-fifth, humbly thinking,…
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. – Edward Hoagland Told the She-Genius, I realize now, men convinced women that long hair was their ‘glory’ as a form of…
There’s room for all of you, and for everything you experience – the grim and the glorious, the wounded, wounding, healing and healed. – Hiro Boga Remember, you are always welcome to visit. There’s a Holiday Inn Express just outside the gate, across from the marijuana dispensary and kitty-korner to the liquor store. Dogs’ kennel…
I whispered “Holy shit” and “Jesus Christ” like a mantra. – Ryan Chapman ju·ve·nil·ia | \ ˌjü-və-ˈni-lē-ə \ Definition of juvenilia 1: compositions produced in the artist’s or author’s youth. I worried about publishing my juvenilia, but then I reminded myself, who really gives a shit? These reports are my archive which will hopefully reside in The Cloud – whatever that…
It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn’t it, after all,…
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld. Plus there was a draft. 5 Facts to Know About Veterans Day By Katie Lange for the USA Department of Defense. You have accessed part of a historical collection on defense.gov. Some of the information contained…
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. – Anais Nin We all have that book — or two — that we can’t get enough of, and this holiday gives us the chance…
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. – Jean Baudrillard Disguised as 230-pound civic leader Jack Welch. While a blonde gazes adoringly. Halloween 2006. Pretty much the end of a decade-long prison sentence. Lucky to get out of town with…