More photos of the towers before the attacks here
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
fabulousness to share...
I finally got to meet Jago (the fabulous illustrator) last month in Cornwall. Read more here.
And if it's all not too exciting for you, then there's also this:
The brand new sparkly JESUS STORYBOOK BIBLE website just went live and if you head over there you can download free mp3s of the upcoming audio (read by David--Hercule Poirot--Suchet!) and win books, enter sweepstakes, do Q&A with Jago, David, and all kinds of other lovely stuff like that.
And... not only that... but ... steady yourselves... look, I got a delicious super fabulous actual real live copy of the deluxe edition (these photos are Jago's):
how cool and classy is that?
Sunday, September 6, 2009
bicycle
(photo: man on bike, Berlin, 1920s)
H.G. Wells said,
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
H.G. (Herbert George) Wells, born in Bromley, England (1866) got a respiratory disease in his 20s and thought he was going to die. So he left his wife, ran away with another woman, and began writing furiously.
In about five years, he wrote all the novels for which he is remembered: The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). And then he went on living and writing more science fiction and also a history of the world.
He died in 1946 at the ripe old age of 80.
Which just goes to prove something but I'm not sure quite what.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
down on your hands and knees with language
Last Spring I had the privilege of hearing Billy Collins read from his work and ever since I've been a huge fan.
In a radio interview, the former U.S. Poet Laureate talked about his art, and described the fun of writing:
"The real thrill is composition," Collins said. "To be kind of down on your hands and knees with the language at really close range in the midst of a poem that is carrying you in some direction that you can't foresee... It's that sense of ongoing discovery that makes composition really thrilling and that's the pleasure and that's why I write."
Here's a clip to give you a taste of his poetic brilliance and how funny he is and his totally dead pan delivery... (incase you weren't already familiar with him):
In a radio interview, the former U.S. Poet Laureate talked about his art, and described the fun of writing:
"The real thrill is composition," Collins said. "To be kind of down on your hands and knees with the language at really close range in the midst of a poem that is carrying you in some direction that you can't foresee... It's that sense of ongoing discovery that makes composition really thrilling and that's the pleasure and that's why I write."
Here's a clip to give you a taste of his poetic brilliance and how funny he is and his totally dead pan delivery... (incase you weren't already familiar with him):
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Donald Miller: Million Miles Tour
My brilliant funny hysterical friend is opening for Don, her name is Susan Isaacs and she wrote ANGRY CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD and she is fabulous and you must not miss her!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Live the questions now
In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote,
"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now."
And he said, "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
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