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Archive for April 9th, 2007

Reading The Obits

Posted in Art, Authors, Books, Culture, Death, Doodling, Jugular, Love, Money, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Spirituality, tagged , , , on April 9, 2007 | 18 Comments »

Reading The Obits, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2007-2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.

Inspired by this post:  The Uses Of Sorrow – What Is It About Obituaries?

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bell hooks & Thich Nhat Hanh – Building a Community of Love

Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Family, Gratitude, Life, Love, Memoir, Politics, Practice, Reading, Spirituality, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’m almost done with the bell hooks memoir, Bone Black. I posted a link to the bell hooks articles and profile in Shambhala Sun a few weeks ago in 10 Minutes with the King. But I want to repost Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh as a separate log.
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The Uses of Sorrow – What Is It About Obituaries?

Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Family, Growing Older, Life, Love, Nature, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Relationships, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2007 | 28 Comments »

I’m thinking about poetry.  Our topic this week is to write a poem for Slam-o-rama.
Poetry came easy to me last year. It poured out of me. I’m not saying it was good. Just that it poured. Like Morton salt. It seems tougher to write now. I have to slow down to write poetry.
I am going [...]

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