Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Looking for some William Butler Yeats poetry today brought me around to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, with a reminder of how powerful writers from the past seed the future. Mitchell’s rich lyrical legacy is her own, of course. But for one song, she recast Yeats’ poem Second Coming and put it to haunting music. I didn’t…
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Bring it on! In her book on making changes, behavioral economist Katy Milkman calls it the fresh start effect. Everybody else calls it New Year’s resolutions. I love them and I do them, and sometimes they do me proud. Buying and reading Milkman’s book “How to Change” gave me a suite of tools to help…
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What I see depends on where and when I am. If I’d been six feet or so to the right, or five minutes earlier or later, I wouldn’t have seen this bit of rainbow on a mostly blustery day. Robert Frost has a fine poem along these lines, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 