3/31/08
3/26/08
Disclaimer Statement from M. SCOTT PECK / GLIMPSES OF THE DEVIL
"With the exception of myself, Malachi Martin, and other published writers or public figures, the names, ages, and locations and other identifying details of all people mentioned in this book have been altered. Occasionally, the superficialities of certain events have also been altered. These alterations have not, however, distorted the essence of the experiences recounted, or I believe, significantly compromised their reality."
M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck
ANNA QUINDLEN QUOTE
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
3/17/08
MIKE O'CONNOR quote from CRISIS PURSUED BY DISASTER, FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY CATASTROPHE
page 230...
"Wars are perfect places for people with a lot to forget. They can fill you with such terror for your life and such horror at what people can do to one another that they strip your mind of what came before ........... War can also make you fall in love, with bullets spraying at any time, nothing to eat tonight, or to prevent you from freezing by dawn, you take a narrow view of things.... When nothing is safe, the future becomes a vague promise and the past a vaguer memory. Even when you are outside direct danger, life turns unpredictable. Nothing is secure and who you were may disappear. If you can reach over and find someone like yourself, someone equally desperate to escape the past and you can steal a few days and nights with such a person in a city like Rome, you won't want to ever let go....
"Wars are perfect places for people with a lot to forget. They can fill you with such terror for your life and such horror at what people can do to one another that they strip your mind of what came before ........... War can also make you fall in love, with bullets spraying at any time, nothing to eat tonight, or to prevent you from freezing by dawn, you take a narrow view of things.... When nothing is safe, the future becomes a vague promise and the past a vaguer memory. Even when you are outside direct danger, life turns unpredictable. Nothing is secure and who you were may disappear. If you can reach over and find someone like yourself, someone equally desperate to escape the past and you can steal a few days and nights with such a person in a city like Rome, you won't want to ever let go....
3/14/08
FROM A STARBUCKS COFFEE CUP - LOSANG RABGEY
From a Starbucks coffee cup I drank from yesterday morning on Lankershim.
THE WAY I SEE IT #288
My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth I was raised in the West and have a P.H.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenge of global disparity.
Losang Rabgey, P.H.d
National Geographic Emerging Explorer and co-founder of Mochif, a non profit to help communities on the Tibetan plateau.
THE WAY I SEE IT #288
My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth I was raised in the West and have a P.H.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenge of global disparity.
Losang Rabgey, P.H.d
National Geographic Emerging Explorer and co-founder of Mochif, a non profit to help communities on the Tibetan plateau.
3/13/08
PATTIE BOYD with PENNY JUNOR from WONDERFUL TONIGHT
page 170 "Sometimes George (Harrison) and I, both Pisceans, were like the symbolic fish swimming in opposite directions. George seemed torn between the deep beneath us and the glitter on the surface, and I was so dazzled by what sparkled above that I couldn't look down for fear of what might be lurking there."
3/11/08
LA BUS POETRY * MTA * POETRY IN MOTION * SANDRA CISNEROS
POETRY IN MOTION, featured on Los Angeles' MTA buses, puts poetry where ads for commercial purposes usually are and so you can read a poem while riding. I saw this one the other day on the #183 going down Magnolia Boulevard.
YOU CALLED ME CORAZON
by Sandra Cisneros C 1994 from "Loose Woman"
That was enough
for me to forgive you,
to spirit a tiger
from its cell.
Called corazon
in that instant before
I let go the phone
back to its cradle.
Your voice small.
Heat of your eyes.
How I would have placed
my mouth on each.
Said corozon
and the word blazed
like a bunch of jacaranda.
YOU CALLED ME CORAZON
by Sandra Cisneros C 1994 from "Loose Woman"
That was enough
for me to forgive you,
to spirit a tiger
from its cell.
Called corazon
in that instant before
I let go the phone
back to its cradle.
Your voice small.
Heat of your eyes.
How I would have placed
my mouth on each.
Said corozon
and the word blazed
like a bunch of jacaranda.
3/10/08
LA STREET POETRY - DEBRA SPECTOR D'INNOCENTE
Debra, who is Jewish, handed me this poem on the street, written in her kind of calligraphy. She told me that it is to Adonai - God. I promised I would publish it.
WHERE SHALL WE STAY?
Where shall we stay
Amongst the rubble or
by thoust arms
and by the stars
for there is no poison,
no fear,
no fires that burn in my soul -
To have found You, a love! so pure,
unleashed by grace itself -
a pack of cards -
a Trojan horse -
and your Book!
C 2008 All Rights Reserved for Debra Spector D'Innocente
3/9/08
JERRY B. JENKINS / WRITERS ARE READERS
From Chapter 7, WRITERS ARE READERS... page 97 of WRITING FOR THE SOUL, by Jerry B. Jenkins, well known Christian author of the Left Behind series. author of about 150 books.
"I was raised by a crossword-puzzling, poetic father and an anagramming, word-loving, Latin-knowing, grammarian mother. My two older brothers are smart and were good students, so I learned to speak and write correctly by osmosis, which frustrated my English teachers to no end. I could pick out the correct sentence, but I couldn't say why it was better than the poor example - it just sounded right. The right one sounded the way my mother spoke."
"I was raised by a crossword-puzzling, poetic father and an anagramming, word-loving, Latin-knowing, grammarian mother. My two older brothers are smart and were good students, so I learned to speak and write correctly by osmosis, which frustrated my English teachers to no end. I could pick out the correct sentence, but I couldn't say why it was better than the poor example - it just sounded right. The right one sounded the way my mother spoke."
3/8/08
NORMAN COUSINS quote
"Encounters in living generally precede and do not follow the development of writing skills. Having something to write about is the initial qualifier and the great motivator."
- Norman Cousins
3/5/08
PATTIE BOYD'S MEMOIR DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
Not to pick on Pattie! I just read Eric Clapton's memoir and now it's only fair to read "Wonderful Tonight," Subtitled George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and me WITH PENNY JUNOR. But as I read a lot of memoir and autobiography I am fascinated with books that begin kind of like this.... (OK. I read it... and it's better than Eric's!)
"This is my truth which may not necessarily be as others remember it. But if my story is to have any validity, I have to tell the truth as I see it."
SEND ME YOUR FAVORITE MEMOIR DISCLAIMER STATEMENT (and be sure to properly attribute it!)
Christine
"This is my truth which may not necessarily be as others remember it. But if my story is to have any validity, I have to tell the truth as I see it."
SEND ME YOUR FAVORITE MEMOIR DISCLAIMER STATEMENT (and be sure to properly attribute it!)
Christine
3/4/08
MARJORIE JACKSON quote
"You are no more your feelings than the weather is the earth." - Marjorie Jackson
3/2/08
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