13: Keep Your Eye on the Ball
1. I like that the words diverse and universe have the word verse right in them, calling to mind a sense of poetry.
2. And I’ll never get over that the word good has god right in it.
3. Since poetry is a per-verbal language, the most a poet can hope for is to speak broken-poetry.
4. Thirty traits happy people have in common via Sweet Tea and Sunshine HERE.
5. Oatmeal is like crack to my chickens.
6. Web sites to get stuck on: Letters of Note. THIS one is a letter to an aspiring writer from F. Scott Fitzgerald, which starts: I’ve read your story carefully and I’m afraid the price for doing professional work is a good deal higher than you are prepared to pay at present. You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.
7. I was taught in school not to compose run-on sentences and, so, was surprised to learn that Faulkner wrote a sentence in one of his books that had over 1,000 words in it.
8. I couldn’t find an example of the 1,000 word sentence, probably because the one sited was 15 pages long, but I did find an explanation of why Faulkner wrote long sentences: He wrote long sentences for two reasons. First, he was writing with “a foreknowledge of death,” and thus a pressure “to put the whole history of the human heart on the head of a pin.” Second, he explained, “a character in a story at any moment of action is not just himself as he is then, he is all that made him, and the long sentence is an attempt to get his past and possibly his future into the instant in which he does something.
9. HERE is an excellent video clip of an interview with the co-founder and producer of Floydfest, Kris Hodges on the history of the four-day summer festival. I was surprised to learn while watching that Jackson Browne, one of the headliners this year, contacted Kris wanting to play Floydfest.
10. My energy is like a ball I’m trying to keep up. If it falls, it stays down for a while. ~ From 100 Things About Me.
11. “I believe that goodness is our natural state and that we don’t need the fear of a wrathful God to make us good.” ~ also from 100 Things About Me. Read more HERE.
12. Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~ Carl Sandburg
13. I really like the zing in amazing.
August 8th, 2012 6:21 pm
I really like the picture of the sparkling water in the pool and the color…..so calming and serene!
PS My eye was on the water!
August 9th, 2012 9:08 am
Chickens like oatmeal? I didn’t know that. By the way, I love your swimming pool beach ball. Happy TT!
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2012/08/thirteenor-fourteen-summer-reads.html
August 9th, 2012 9:25 am
Enjoyed your word play this morning.
August 9th, 2012 9:27 am
Wow, that Sandburg quote makes me grin!
August 9th, 2012 12:23 pm
I feeling #10 right now!
August 9th, 2012 1:00 pm
oops, the link to sweet tea and sunshine is broken.
poetry is rain in training.
ooh, the zing in amazing.
August 9th, 2012 2:38 pm
The link works for me. Hit to the left, while the happy people are to the far right.
August 9th, 2012 4:26 pm
#4 – I just love Sherilee!
#5 – it’s like crack to me lately, too! I’ve been making overnight oats…love it with raisins & blueberries in the morning.
August 9th, 2012 7:01 pm
Oatmeal IS crack. Period. TLat’s why I avoid it. Let them chickens have it. Ick.