Archive for January, 2007
Sightlines Podcasts
If you go to www.bloggingauthors.com, you can hear these five recordings on “Fascinating Author Podcasts”:
1. Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary
2. Why I Wrote a Book
3. Praising Mother
4. Memento Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment
5. P.O.D. Quality Control
I enjoyed making these recordings and hope you’ll enjoy listening to them.
The Terrorist Plot at Gopherville by Steve Bartholomew
An autobiographical novel about a geezer who talks to himself, eats roadkill, and would like to overthrow the government.
We call Steve Bartholomew “Bart” in these parts. Yesterday he presented his book to our Lake County reading and writing community at Watershed Books in Lakeport. I’m telling you, when we put on a party here, it’s [...]
Grace, Amazing, Isn’t It?
GRACE
for four generations of Graces
Amazing, isn’t it, grace? Praising. Blessing.
Raising hearts lifted in thanks. How sweet the sound.
The Greeks named three Graces. Joy. Charm. Beauty.
Grace, a Lost and Found Department. Finding our ground within the surround sound
Grace cares. Cares for. Cares about. Searches out the heart of the other.
Grace dignifies. The smallest loaf. [...]
Comedy on Tilt Slides into Fourth Year
“When you see the world on tilt rather than straight on, then you see the humor in the situation.” –Daniel Holland
For years Daniel Holland, my sweetheart, dreamed of an old-fashioned comedy variety review show for Lake County, here in Northern California. My slogan is, “If you can dream, you can do.”
In 2004, then, we did. [...]
“WHEN TRAILS DIVIDE”–a love poem by Erwin A. Thompson
My father wrote this poem for my mother, Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson after her death May 1, 2006. You can read more about my mother in “Sweet Little Dove” under “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” on this website.
by Erwin A. Thompson
For Ruth, my faithful partner of the trail for almost sixty-four years.
From [...]
Can I Be Honest With You?
“Can I be honest with you?” These words jumped off the computer screen at me in a recent email and I thought, “Ooooooo, no. Nope. I can live my life without anyone ever being honest with me, by announcing they are about to by honest, ever again.”
Because that usually means license to kill the spirit…the 007s [...]
Washing those Words Right Out of Your Head
I can’t get you out of my head…”Going out of my head….over you.” Wily words, I’ve been writing you in my head, what good does that do?
If you’ve been trotting around with a head full of words and wondering how to transfer these onto paper, here are a few tips. Good work habits help us [...]
Don’t Sell Your Soul to the Company Store
Sell your services to the company store, but not your soul. In company towns, there was always a company store selling goods at high prices and always willing to extend credit to get you more deply mired in their debt. In our service-oriented world, the company store takes on a different, more psychological character of [...]
Shooing Away the Yapping Censor Dogs
The “Write, Pen!” technique is a variation of what the Surrealists dubbed “automatic writing.” Writing that came, they felt, from their subconscious, and therefore routed around the conscious mind with its nagging censor dogs yapping at our writing heels too early.
In modern day writing circle we use clustering or mind-mapping and free-writing to come into [...]
Write, Pen! Connecting to Our Wisdom Selves
Wisdom lives within us, we have only to connect with it. But, how? In the 1980s, when I lived in New Mexico, I studied Psychosynthesis Professional Training with the Intermountain Associates of Psychosynthesis, co-directed by Molly Young Brown and Walter Polt. Walter collaborated with me on training programs for my consulting firm Clear Communication and [...]
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