Marly Youmans's Blog, page 26
April 20, 2017
Hodgepodgery
Yellow-blue morning
Four male and three female goldfinches perched on the feeder, backed by a lawn that is a low meadow in shades of blue scilla and a few yellow crocuses. Plus a persistent squirrel. I am recalling my father's electrifying squirrel-defenses....
More on my wanderings, for the curious or downright nosey--
Grovewood Gallery by Grove Park Inn
After I returned from Paris, I
Four male and three female goldfinches perched on the feeder, backed by a lawn that is a low meadow in shades of blue scilla and a few yellow crocuses. Plus a persistent squirrel. I am recalling my father's electrifying squirrel-defenses....
More on my wanderings, for the curious or downright nosey--
Grovewood Gallery by Grove Park Inn
After I returned from Paris, I
March 15, 2017
AGH!
Learning curve: just sent a Rollipoke News out today... And got a bunch of replies. And then replied to one to absolutely everybody enrolled. Sorry out there!
March 14, 2017
"Lessons in history, beauty, and the point of life"
Moreau's Jason and Medea,
Musée d'Orsay, Wikipedia public domain
It's a bit odd that I made it to Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu before I ever made it to Paris but so it is. Here are a few scattered thoughts about my just-finished trip, which was quite wonderful and not at all like Lent (aside from sore knees and seeing many skulls and bones and rambling in the chilly rain.) What is so alluring
Musée d'Orsay, Wikipedia public domain
It's a bit odd that I made it to Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu before I ever made it to Paris but so it is. Here are a few scattered thoughts about my just-finished trip, which was quite wonderful and not at all like Lent (aside from sore knees and seeing many skulls and bones and rambling in the chilly rain.) What is so alluring
March 12, 2017
Paris
I'm fresh back from Paris and promise to post soon--hope you have done something wonderful in the past week!
February 28, 2017
Small hurrah on Shrove Tuesday
Yesterday I finished the draft of a novel. For me, it is quite long--358 pages of text, plus the usual front matter and divisions. And it has a glossary. I'm not sure whether I'll include the glossary. It glosses dialect words and clears up some common misconceptions. Maybe I'll just post it.... I'll take a break from the manuscript, and then start to revise it and also do some persnickety
February 19, 2017
The Rollipoke News, no. 1
Courtesy of Jenny W. of Honolulu, sxc.hu
For those of you who are waiting with the bated kind of breath: the first issue of The Rollipoke (a.k.a. The Rollipoke News, The Rollicking Rollipoke, etc.) will be launched into the interspace tomorrow. And I hope you enjoy the peculiar little newsletter that promises to give you the news about my books and doings before anybody else has it--news
For those of you who are waiting with the bated kind of breath: the first issue of The Rollipoke (a.k.a. The Rollipoke News, The Rollicking Rollipoke, etc.) will be launched into the interspace tomorrow. And I hope you enjoy the peculiar little newsletter that promises to give you the news about my books and doings before anybody else has it--news
February 14, 2017
Nuggets
Tiny Equus africanus asinus
Creative Commons Wikipedia
I've been researching such interesting topics as total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and so on, hanging with Calvin and the reformed tradition, hanging with Puritans and Separatists. All for the sake of my current novel.
Though in the past I've done lots of reading in seventeenth-century
Creative Commons Wikipedia
I've been researching such interesting topics as total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace and so on, hanging with Calvin and the reformed tradition, hanging with Puritans and Separatists. All for the sake of my current novel.
Though in the past I've done lots of reading in seventeenth-century
February 7, 2017
Elecampane and pippin-pap
Public domain, Wikipedia.Doman Hering: Judgement of Paris, c. 1529, Solnhofen limestone, 22 x 19.7 cm; Paris (the knight) is a portrait of Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, Hera a portrait of his wife Susanna. Bode-Museum Berlin.
Well, it's not the admirable and most famous Snail Water, but it might come in handy on these cold winter nights...
An approved Conserve for a Cough or Consumption of
Well, it's not the admirable and most famous Snail Water, but it might come in handy on these cold winter nights...
An approved Conserve for a Cough or Consumption of
February 2, 2017
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"news of upcoming books (fiction and poetry by Marly Youmans, both new and reprints),
public events, strange happenings, lost words, etc."
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Stylish, heartfelt Stevenson
Stevenson's tomb on Mount Vaea, Western Samoa
Clip from a gorgeous letter by Robert Louis Stevenson: Lastly we come to those vocations which are at once decisive and precise; to the men who are born with the love of pigments, the passion of drawing, the gift of music, or the impulse to create with words, just as other and perhaps the same men are born with the love of hunting, or the sea, or
Clip from a gorgeous letter by Robert Louis Stevenson: Lastly we come to those vocations which are at once decisive and precise; to the men who are born with the love of pigments, the passion of drawing, the gift of music, or the impulse to create with words, just as other and perhaps the same men are born with the love of hunting, or the sea, or
