Naomi Shihab Nye, from the Great River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
How often have I entered the House of God without fear and trembling, stood there in prayer, frivolous and absent-minded, and left it in the same spirit and disposition! And in prayer at home I have been just as cold and indifferent, praying little, lazily, and indolently, inattentively and impiously, and even completely omitting the appointed prayers!
- St Basil The Great
Nettie Of NOLA
That’s short for New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nettie’s home is only a short drive from my studio in Baton Rouge—but that’s only speaking of mileage: New Orleans exists in some parallel dimension unrelated to the rest of the planet. That’s why creative folks of every stripe find it so appealing.
My model Ruby visited Nettie for Mardi Gras and took a lot of photos, one of which inspired this picture.
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Pearls Before Swine
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.”
The pearls to which Jesus refers, in this quote, are the truths of the gospel; but there are lesser pearls (good books and music, democracy, even fine cuisine) to which a certain piggish mentality responds with irrational fury and the urge to destroy. If it is beautiful or fine or ennobling, there are creatures who will hate it for that reason.
I cannot understand such people; but I have known them and worked with them, and so have you. In this humorous but unpleasant picture, I depict them in all their self-loathing and bestial cruelty. I cannot say what sort of houses these three little pigs call home, but I suspect (to employ another biblical metaphor) that they are built upon sand.
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The Terre-Cuite Tea Set (aka French Tea Garden), 1910
Frederick Childe Hassam
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Detail
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Roddy Doyle - On Writing
1. Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
2. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph –
3. Until you get to Page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety – it’s the job.
4. Do give the work a name as quickly as possible. Own it, and see it. Dickens knew Bleak House was going to be called Bleak House before he started writing it. The rest must have been easy.
5. Do restrict your browsing to a few websites a day. Don’t go near the online bookies – unless it’s research.
6. Do keep a thesaurus, but in the shed at the back of the garden or behind the fridge, somewhere that demands travel or effort. Chances are the words that come into your head will do fine, eg “horse”, “ran”, “said”.
7. Do, occasionally, give in to temptation. Wash the kitchen floor, hang out the washing. It’s research.
8. Do change your mind. Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. I was working on a novel about a band called the Partitions. Then I decided to call them the Commitments.
9. Do not search amazon.co.uk for the book you haven’t written yet.
10. Do spend a few minutes a day working on the cover biog – “He divides his time between Kabul and Tierra del Fuego.” But then get back to work.
This advice first appeared in The Guardian
Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into , beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993.
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Narnia is pretty much failing at being secret these days.
^ this link? you should click it.
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