Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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The darkest time of year requires dark poetry. So here’s Irish poet Joseph Campbell (not the well-known chronicler of mythology) with a few fine lines. The dawn whiteness.A bank of slate-grey cloud lying heavily over it.The moon, like a hunted thing, dropping into the cloud. But even with Oregon’s “slate-grey cloud”, there are counterpoints, like…
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Writers have borrowed a trick from artists, writing en plein air, outside, making observations and jotting notes the way that painters take canvas, paints and easel out to capture what they see. Books and websites about plein air writing are plentiful, with tips, gear and strategies. I’ve found value both in writing and drawing this…
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We walk in the morning before breakfast. Almost every day. Dreary, rainy, sunny, beckoning — whatever. We have our routes. But sometimes we venture along a street or an alley off our usual pattern. Last week on a dreary morning, we ventured down an alley that rarely calls to us. (An aside about the alleys…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 