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Story Telling … continues
… you can tell when you find a piece of [a true story] in something new, because it makes your heart rise up into your mouth, full of wishes. So says Nisi Shawl, discussing “How to Tell a True Story.” Stories are on my mind lately: stories, and the importance of being able to tell [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Over My Shoulder
“… reading is the most subversive activity in life. Open any true book and you begin to see the world through somebody else’s eyes. Nothing is more redeeming than that, or more dangerous.” – James Sallis, paraphrasing Paco Ignatio Taibo II in “Incomparable Paco,” the afterword for the English translation of Taibo’s An Easy Thing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Language(s) and the Difficulty of Reading and Writing
I have been dumbstruck for the last hour or so by a series of videos and writings by Amanda Baggs, a brilliant writer and videographer who is also artistic. (You can watch an 8-minute video on YouTube that illuminates her own ability to communicate and how others fail to understand her as a thinking, communicative [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Reader, Writer, Teacher… a collage about me
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping,going to meetings, waxing the floor–anything. –Gloria Steinem My favorite way to keep from working is the dishes. Or, occasionally, organizing my desk. * * * “…reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or [...]
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