Inspiration Monday: Ansel Adams
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” – Ansel Adams Continue reading Inspiration Monday: Ansel Adams
Wordless Wednesday: NOLA Street Art
Inspiration Monday: Debra Rapoport
“At 70 with courage and confidence I feel possibilities are endless. It’s never too late if we haven’t yet met our destiny.” — Debra Rapoport Photo via That’s Not My Age Continue reading Inspiration Monday: Debra Rapoport
Less is more at 5:30 am
At 5:30 every morning I get up to put drops in my dog Buddy’s eye. He had cataract surgery on December 7th and part of the aftercare is seven different drops at different times around the clock. Well, some of them coincide but you get the picture. He’s doing great, btw, finally able to see well enough to resume our daily walks which makes us both happy. Anyway, at 5am he has three drops that are given five minutes apart so in the five minute waiting periods I look at my iPad. Seems a theme has emerged this morning: less. … Continue reading Less is more at 5:30 am
Receding Matter
Grey day, indistinct edges fade into tendrils of forgotten thoughts. The birth caul over baby’s face, the thud of dirt on crone’s coffin, everything in between so much receding matter. Ancient burial grounds fester beneath glass and concrete as the living replace the dead, decade upon decade. Water drips, minutes absorbed into earth. The juju beads hold no sway here. **** I don’t know why I write more on gloomy days. Continue reading Receding Matter
Recent Published Poems
Two of my poems, Hynopompia and Sustenance, were published in the Winter 2015 issue of Olentangy Review, a journal that’s published astonishing writing for many years. Big thanks to Melissa and Daryl Price for supporting and publishing my work. My first publication of 2016, Away, is in Right Hand Pointing, an online journal publishing since 2004, which is forever online. Thanks to Laura Kaminski, editor, who is an accomplished poet in her own right. I am a huge fan of her work. I am excited and humbled to be included with the talented poets in these issues. Continue reading Recent Published Poems
Inspiration Monday: Doris Lessing
Charlotte’s Top Five
It’s end/beginning of year – list time! Although list posts are multiplying like rabbits online, I’ll go ahead and post my second annual Top Fives in books, movies, TV, and music. Note that these are not books, movies, TV, and music that debuted in 2015 but my personal Top Fives which means, although I’m not a slave to current pop culture, I am highly interested in good books, good movies, good TV, and good music regardless of when it was created. In addition, I’m posting my Top Five wanna-sees and wanna-reads for 2016. Wanna-listen is dependent upon mood. Here we … Continue reading Charlotte’s Top Five
Inspiration Monday: Paul Coelho
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” ― Paulo Coelho, “The Devil and Miss Prym” Continue reading Inspiration Monday: Paul Coelho
