Category: Writing Life

Contemplation, Writers Read, Writing Life

Reading & Staying Put

Image of candle burning and eight books.

  • Magda Szabó The Door
  • Grace Wilentz The Limit of Light
  • Raymond Carter Cathedral
  • Margaret Atwood On Writers and Writing
  • Eva Baltasar Permafrost
  • Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Edith Eger The Gift
  • the Paris Review Winter 2020 235

And this is my current reading pile, some of which I am reading for the second or third time, others which I have yet to start, and one which I am in gloriously lost inside. By tomorrow this stack of books will have changed again, grown, shrunk, and have been re-considered. Such is the reading life. So deeply connected to that of the writing life.

Wishing all readers, lurkers, viewers, writers and observers safe and happy reading, listening, writing…and being.

Contemplation, Writing Life

Between Worlds

We are between worlds: waiting, anticipating, longing. Yet nature awards us with a blue moon – two full moons in the same calendar month.  

“…here I opened wide the door;—
            Darkness there and nothing more.”
from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
 
You can read the complete poem here. 
 
 
Photograph of flowers and candles – by Shauna Gilligan

So, dear friends, stay with your text and let the ideas grow – in light and in the dark. Keep the candles burning, cherish the light around you and hold hope bright.