Category: New Orleans
Hot Reads Plus
Lots of good things to share today that I’ve read and watched over the past week or so. Enjoy! On The Miscreant, a flash fiction by James Claffey “The Air, Fair Crackling”. Also by James on Flash Fiction Chronicles, “Why I Write Flash Fiction”. I like this quote in the piece: “Flash fiction, ultimately, is about finding your form, discovering the right angle with which to cut the diamond into facets, showing a world in a moment.” On Brain Pickings, Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Eulogy to Her Soul Mate”. Photo above of Mary Oliver (b. … Continue reading Hot Reads Plus
Wordless Wednesday: Patina
Morning Meditation 12/19/14
Missing This damp and sunless day I think of you and my hand in your pocket, leaves falling like golden tears. Continue reading Morning Meditation 12/19/14
Morning Meditation 12/12/14
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. — Nhat Thich Hahn Continue reading Morning Meditation 12/12/14
Morning Meditation 12/2/14
The damp air clings to my skin while I watch little birds chirp and flutter, snacking at the feeder. Sunlight burns off the fog and the dampness disappears into clear blue autumn skies. Continue reading Morning Meditation 12/2/14
Clearly Clouded
A conflicted alchemy, fragments of instinct was all they had, in hindsight. A delineation painstakingly constructed, an impulsive quickness, a capricious clarity. A story oddly radiant. Continue reading Clearly Clouded
Dream
One time I bought a fake rock – somewhere, I don’t remember where – that had “Dream” cut into it. At that particular moment in time I couldn’t not buy it just because it was a fake rock. “Dream” is probably my favorite word because dreams are so ripe with possibility and anyone can dream, in any circumstance. I bought the rock and put it under my magnolia tree in the backyard between two roots growing on top of the ground. Every time I walked by the tree I looked down and the rock was there, reminding me to dream. … Continue reading Dream
Book Review: Hagridden
Looking for a good book? Read my review of Hagridden. Continue reading Book Review: Hagridden
Defenseless Anatomy
Come out upon my seas Cursed missed opportunities Am I a part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease? — “Clocks” by Coldplay Defenseless Anatomy And I’m there in the shadows of the sun, the humid air curling the hair on the nape of my neck, your hands curled around my waist as the wind ruffles the wild grass around our ankles. Us, caught in moments that passed so quickly never to be played the same way again. Was it part of the cure? The long weeks that ripped the skin of our intimacy? Maybe the disease … Continue reading Defenseless Anatomy
