Last night I read from John Garner’s The Art of Fiction about the theory of the “fictional dream”—a notion that the writer makes us “see” the story by giving us images that appeal to all our senses, eliciting emotion. I thought of this as I watched President Obama’s electrifying speech delivered this past Saturday in Selma Alabama on… Continue reading President Obama: “What could more American than this?” [Bloody Sunday]
Month: March 2015
Spring and 50 Years After Bloody Sunday
Spring is my favorite time of the year (granted I say this when fall colors burst, and again when winter brings sleep and I can see the garden’s skeleton and of course in lush June when I turn another year older) but really…
Love knows…
Thanks to our daughter, Miranda, for sharing this with me this morning. Filled me up to overflowing. I’m so glad we can still count on the Ad Council to be powerful and innovative. Get yourself some Kleenex… http://youtu.be/Cen7NhfpMVE rethink bias at www.lovehasnolabels.com
Marching into Spring
Had meniscal knee surgery on Friday. So this is Day 3, March 1st and I started it by leaving my notes and reading and recliner to hobble out to the garden and gather flowers for this mandala. Thanks to my friend Judith in still wintery Brooklyn for the idea. Hope you all are finding beauty where… Continue reading Marching into Spring