Poetry for These Times
- At June 15, 2020
- By Write in Community
- In Blog
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.—Salman Rushdie
The last two weeks have been ones of strong emotion and calls for change, the brutal death of George Floyd making it impossible to go on as before, to maintain what seems to have become the status quo in this country: systemic racism, social injustice, and police brutality. While we as a country may denounce such racism and the awful fruits of it, we haven’t done enough to make it stop.
Read More»Everyday Creativity: You Have it Within You
- At November 13, 2017
- By Write in Community
- In Blog
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.—Maya Angelou
We were remodeling, trying to spruce up the bathroom in our 65 year old house without breaking the bank. One of the problems was the medicine cabinet, caked with layers of paint, rust here and there eating away at the shelves. But its frame and overall design charming, a kind of French “shabby chic”—with an overemphasis, lately, on the “shabby.” My husband, Tom, opted for refurbishing. So after removing the cabinet from the wall, weekends spent painting, sanding, and repainting, he completed the job. The cabinet was clean and fresh again, its simple elegance restored. But all was not perfect. When refitted back into its opening, the cabinet door wouldn’t close, leaving a gap. Not a very big gap, but a gap nonetheless.
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