{"id":343,"date":"2004-06-23T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-writers-almanac-again\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T21:44:13","slug":"the-writers-almanac-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/the-writers-almanac-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writer’s Almanac (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep forgetting the Writer’s <\/p>\n

Almanac, which surprises me because every time NewMexiKen<\/a> reminds me to visit it, I find much to <\/p>\n

enjoy and too many things I’d like to quote. Go see for yourself, but here are few from this week<\/a>.mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

”I wanted safety in blue <\/p>\n

distance, illimitable, uninhabited. I wanted … the grandeur of free solitude.” and ”Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random <\/p>\n

ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.” — naturalist and writer Donald Culross Peattie<\/p>\n

My book is <\/p>\n

an open life \/ …
\nUntil something transcendent turns up
\nI plash in my poetry puddle
\nand try to keep God amused
\n— Having Come This <\/p>\n

Far by James Broughton<\/p>\n

It is marvellous to wake up together
\nAt the same minute; marvellous to hear
\nThe rain begin suddenly all over <\/p>\n

the roof
\n— It is Marvellous by Elizabeth Bishop<\/p>\n

It rained all of some hundredths of an inch yesterday (12 drops at my <\/p>\n

house), a technicality ‘ending<\/i>‘ our 5th longest stretch without measurable rain. Better than nothing — truly so, no matter how <\/p>\n

close to nothing it seems. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the poem, “The Vacuum,” by Howard Nemerov.<\/p>\n

And let us all remember and <\/p>\n

celebrate George Orwell (born Eric Blair) on his birthday, Friday, 6\/25<\/a> (1903). mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

”Every line of <\/p>\n

serious work that I have written [since the Spanish Civil War] has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism.”<\/p>\n

”The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns … <\/p>\n

instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”<\/p>\n

”If liberty means anything at all, it <\/p>\n

means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”<\/b><\/p>\n

MPR’s The Writer’s Almanac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep forgetting the Writer’s Almanac, which surprises me because every time NewMexiKen reminds me to visit it, I find much to enjoy and too many things I’d like to quote. Go see for yourself, but here are few from this week.mjh ”I wanted safety in blue distance, illimitable, uninhabited. I wanted … the grandeur … Continue reading The Writer’s Almanac (again)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}