Quotes

Thought Provoking Quotes

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
– Judy Garland

AMP-ing…

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Thank you for your patience.

Mindfully yours,

Angela

Warning!

Warning: prolonged use of positive thinking may create a permanent positive attitude.

about me

My intention in sharing my journal is to share with you…
I write, collage and photograph my world…
I have a passionate love affair with the written word…
I say yes to all things real in life… I choose to live outside the box…
I am not easily swayed from my personal truths and belief system…
I am a freethinker…
Open mindedness is an absolute for me, it is not subjective.
Peace to all of you my brothers and sisters…
I hope you find something upon these pages that speaks to you personally…

interests:

I’m interested in living in this moment… Kindness is King in my world… I’m interested in laughter,  laughing as much as I possibly can while I’m here… I’m interested in doing what I love & loving what I do, this for me is the key to a successful and fulfilling life… It would please me to know/and feel as though I  left this world a little better than when I was born into it…

family, self-care, writing, reading, music, poetry, producing short films, photography.

Creativity

Embracing Your Creativity

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Walls

Good fences make good neighbors,’the poet Robert Frost assured us more than 90 years ago.” To the contrary…

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

Vincent Donato

The 10 Best Poets

According to the N.Y.Times…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/books/07arts-THE10BESTPOE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=poetryandpoets

Compiled by

Rachel Lee Harris

Published: March 6, 2011

In February Dean Rader, an English professor at the University of San Francisco, set out to discover history’s 10 best poets (much like Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times recently did for composers). After spending two weeks compiling a list of nominees and fielding readers’ comments about them on the Web site of The San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Rader has released his final list, with the Latin American poet Pablo Neruda at No. 1. “No poet has more passionately and thoroughly spoken for his people than Neruda,” Mr. Rader wrote, citing “Canto General,” a 15-part book comprising over 200 poems and 15,000 lines tracing the history of Latin America. “It is an insanely ambitious project that seemed to unify a country.” In second place was Shakespeare, whose name, according to Mr. Rader’s “shockingly unscientific measurements,” appeared most frequently in reader e-mails, followed by Dante, who Mr. Rader said was the most controversial pick, because “he’s only well known for one poem (‘The Divine Comedy’).” Western literary greats like Walt Whitman, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats and Wallace Stevens also appear on the list with the Eastern favorites Rumi and Li Po, whom Mr. Rader called “the great poet of drunkenness.”

What We Did For Fun Before The Computer (via The Biz of Pacelinebiz)

A fun look back… Enjoy & thank you to the author The Biz of Pacelinebiz. Great post!

When I grew up, the video game was not invented yet.  The home video game Pong did not come along until I was nearly in my teens.  Al Gore had not invented the internet either.  So, what did we do back then for fun?  Besides dodging dinosaurs we had a lot of fun games that were played outside with other human beings.  For those under thirty years old – outside is the place where that annoying sun glare on your computer screen comes from.  I tried … Read More

via The Biz of Pacelinebiz

ABOUT

My intention in sharing my journal is to share with you…
I write, collage and photograph my world…
I have a passionate love affair with the written word…
I say yes to all things real in life… I choose to live outside the box…
I am not easily swayed from my personal truths and belief-system…
I am a freethinker…
Open mindedness is an absolute for me, it is not subjective.
Peace to all of you my brothers and sisters…
I hope you find something upon these pages that speaks to you personally… Thanks for reading!

Poets

From a panel discussion titled “Sincerely Ironic” featuring poets Jericho Brown, Tina Chang, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Meghan O’Rourke, and Mark Wunderlich discussing the use of irony and sincerity in contemporary poetry.

Transcript::

Olena Kalytiak Davis:

When I think about clarity, I think about ambiguity, and in some ways irony. It made me want to try and understand Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity. Because it seems like it’s the same thing. We’re talking about layers.

Meghan O’Rourke:

And to me the layers are the thing I go to poetry for. I keep thinking about the Berryman line that you quoted, Jericho: “Life, my friends, is boring,” which is a brilliant, beautiful and extraordinary line precisely because it stages two things at once in that poem. It says “life is boring, life is dull, it’s the anti-Romantic.” It also says: “life is boring.” It bores into you and pierces you. Right? It does those things in one. It’s self-contradictory; it’s holding in mind the contradictory-ness of experience.

W. Washer

Window Washer

by Christopher Todd Matthews

One hand slops suds on, one

hustles them down like a blind.

Brusque noon glare, filtered thus,

loosens and glows. For five or

six minutes he owns the place,

dismal coffee bar, and us, its

huddled underemployed. A blade,

black line against the topmost glass,