National poetry month 2017
Two weeks into April and I haven’t mentioned National Poetry Month yet. It’s not that I haven’t noticed it. I’m marking it quietly this year. My…
To love the expanse between us
There’s an amazing, enormous collection of free-use photos, licensed under Creative Commons Zero, at a site called Unsplash. This one by Wil Stewart (click on it…
Listen
Having spent the whole winter listening—to the river, to the wind, to the crackling of the fire, to my wild, chaotic heart—it felt like perfect timing…
The world-ending fire
During my recent thought-train ride, I learned that Paul Kingsnorth published a collection of Wendell Berry’s essays in January titled The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell…
Of a place
Every so often the Universe takes me on a thought-train ride. Do you understand what I mean by this? I encounter an idea or a passage…
Gambling on happiness
I was intrigued when Theresa Kishkan posted an equation for happiness on her blog this morning. A mathematical equation: I couldn’t make sense of the formula,…
Blurry photographs
One of my favourite editing gigs is as copyeditor for the Journal of Childhood Studies. I work with an amazing team, and every issue I learn…
Sacred breath
talisman by Suheir Hammad it is written the act of writing is holy words are sacred and your breath brings out the god in them i…
Hate is just a bodyguard for grief
Hate is just a bodyguard for grief. When people lose the hate, they are forced to deal with the pain beneath. (Sarah Fields, quoted by Charles…
Home at last
The Perpetual Migration by Marge Piercy How do we know where we are going? How do we know where we are headed till we in fact…