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June 26, 2018
Old Age
Old age is a ceremony of losses. Donald Hall
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June 19, 2018
Storytelling Animals
That’s what we humans are, storytelling animals. A skill we use to distinguish ourselves from the rest of creation. We tell stories. Our dogs and our cats, our cattle and our canaries may communicate, but tell stories? Not possible. Until we learn more—and I won’t be surprised if someday we do learn more—we might as […]
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June 12, 2018
Wholeheartedness
I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. Brene Brown
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June 5, 2018
In Memoriam
The first time I ever saw her, she was so tiny I could hold her in my cupped hands. I remember that she was uneasy about being gathered off the ground, and the whites shone at the edge of her large brown eyes as she peered up at me. She was a Cavalier King Charles […]
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May 29, 2018
Write with the Door Closed …
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or […]
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May 22, 2018
Revision, Then and Now
I have always revised. Of course. Every writer does. But revision has come to be a very different thing than it was when I began publishing in 1976. Then I worked at a typewriter. At first it was the 1956 manual portable (beige with white keys) Smith Corona typewriter that had been my high school […]
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May 15, 2018
Going out…
“. . . going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir
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May 8, 2018
Writers Need Other Writers!
One day, back in the years when I taught writing in various adult-education venues in my home community, I opened my back door to find a young man on my doorstep. He was one of my students, and his face was creased with concern. “Marion,” he said, “how long does it take to write a […]
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May 1, 2018
In the name of the Bee
In the name of the Bee – And of the Butterfly – And of the Breeze – Amen! Emily Dickinson
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April 24, 2018
Our Bluegreeen Globe
If from Space not only sapphire continents, swirling oceans, were visible, but the wars – like bonfires, wildfires, forest conflagrations, flame and smoky smoulder – the Earth would seem a bitter pomander ball bristling with poison cloves. And each war fuelled with weapons: it should be visible that great sums of money have been exchanged, […]
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