Great essay in Salon by author and teacher Patrick Somerville. (Spoilers! Spoilers! Beware.) It’s tremendous, really, this essay, and I loved this graf: “In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity …
(Photo by Steve Rawley) Man, do I love my family. And my birthday. In that order.
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(Photo by Steve Rawley)
“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” — Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (1915-1959)
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 from his website: “Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, …
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(Photo by Steve Rawley)
“Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.” Erica Jong, from “Fear Of Flying”