Sometimes the most unlikely find can give you back your life. When Dani found a hammer she didn’t realize that she found a way to get a new home and sense of security.
Oh Jubilation
So she, she has become the music, the swagger, the swing; she is making her way across the room, across an ocean of notes – tap, slide, rock back and forth, to and fro, up and down, below, below the charismatic smile that forms on her face.
A Night With Pamela Porter
Spent a delightful evening at the local library (Sidney/North Saanich) listening to published and unpublished writers. The key speaker following the various works was poet and award winning novelist Pamela Porter. Not only was it a great experience listening to her read, but following the reading of her work Pamela spoke about the craft of writing. Here are my gleanings from this talk.
Picture Book
You are witnessing changes to the English language and its use. You are now part of a world of technology, computers and new methods of communication that guide the form of language used in the present century. There are few words, little substance; it is a book of images to tell your story.
Gradient
I swim through dreams, foggy and dense, shift awake, shift back to bed, restless and cold; And it is black in the time between day and rest.
First Visit
A grown woman realizes that the price she pays for living across the world from her family is not only in family visits, but in memories.
Winter
Writer Marshall McCarthy’s reflections on winter …
(Almost) The Last Ride
The world had gone white sometime overnight; I could barely see the road ahead. Wipers were useless, as were the other two in the car with me, who had begged me to drive them home.
Spheres Of Influence
Author and photographer Vincent Ross reminds us that it is the little things that count in life and encourages us to enjoy the day by making the time to see it’s treasured moments.
Rain In The Desert
They used to say, with pride, that for a while the hotel was the biggest building in three states. Must have been during the last silver boom I guess. It happened before I was born.