--I LIKE TO HEAR YOU LAUGH
…So I had my reading Thursday night at
The Hugo House, along with a lot of other fine writers.
I went first. I did so because I still get a little more
nervous that I’d like to be. But it went
well—probably my best reading yet.It was a fun time, and always great to be around other writers and all things writerly.
…I haven’t been submitting much, but
Thursday I sent in a story and got it accepted 50 minutes later. That’s a record.
I’m closing in on 700 acceptances since
May 19, 2009.
…I like these things for the weekend,
and maybe you will, too:
-"There
is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting
people up." John Andrew Holmes
-"I am
convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample
themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the
cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of
making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail." C.A. Beard
-"Fear
not for the future, weep not for the past." Percy Bysshe Shelley
-“I’m glad we had the
times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started
and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.” Dr. Seuss
-"It's my conception
that it would be a good thing if everybody wrote poetry, in the world, because
it seems to me that it's a natural human activity. Just like singing is for the
birds. Birds don't sing because they think they're Neil Young, you know; I
mean, they sing because that's what birds do." Ted Berrigan
-"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend
to be."
Kurt Vonnegut
-"I am
convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample
themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the
cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of
making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail." C.A. Beard
No comments:
Post a Comment