I have always loved this woman's poetry. Her imagination. Her sense of play. Her love of words. In this collection, I'm transported back to a prairie childhood, of being outside in wide spaces, darkness, blizzards, the light in snow.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Whetstone
Lorna Crozier. Whetstone. M&S, 2005.
I have always loved this woman's poetry. Her imagination. Her sense of play. Her love of words. In this collection, I'm transported back to a prairie childhood, of being outside in wide spaces, darkness, blizzards, the light in snow.
I have always loved this woman's poetry. Her imagination. Her sense of play. Her love of words. In this collection, I'm transported back to a prairie childhood, of being outside in wide spaces, darkness, blizzards, the light in snow.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
The Truth About Stories
Thomas King. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. CBC Massey Lectures. Anansi, 2003.
This guy can tell stories. Always loved his Dead Dog Cafe.
"The truth about stories is that that's all we are," he says. Stories determine how we relate to each other, to the other, and to the environment.
And the stories we don't tell . . .
This guy can tell stories. Always loved his Dead Dog Cafe.
"The truth about stories is that that's all we are," he says. Stories determine how we relate to each other, to the other, and to the environment.
And the stories we don't tell . . .
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Auguste Rodin: Sculptures & Drawings
October 18, 2016 Auguste Rodin: Sculptures & Drawings. Benedikt Taschen, 1994.
This tidy little book includes a
timeline of the French sculptor's life, photographs of statues,
models, the artist, his muses, with a very economical yet revealing
account of Rodin's career & creative process. Who knew that he is
buried with his wife beneath The Thinker?
The Tao of Psychology
October 17, 2016
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self. Harper Row, 1979/1982.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self. Harper Row, 1979/1982.
Jean Bolen has been a favourite writer
since I first encountered her Goddesses In Everywoman a quarter
century ago. This little book, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity
and the Self, links the ideas of Logos, Tao, and Jung's Collective
Unconscious/Self. She defines "synchronicity" as
"meaningful coincidence, a subjective experience in which the
person gives meaning to the coincidence." [p.15] Which is why, I suspect, she and Jung seem to appeal to writers. Because what they are
describing seems to me to be connected to how metaphor functions. How
we tend to try to define the unknown in terms of the known &
familiar. How do we explain "mystery"?
We are part of a larger whole -- Jung's
collective unconscious. "When we feel synchronicity, we feel
ourselves as part of a cosmic matrix, as participants in the Tao. It
gives us a glimpse into the reality that there is indeed a link
between us all, between us and all living things, between us and the
universe." This is why synchronicity, she says, breaks through
our modern isolation and loneliness and we feel we have had a
numinous, religious, spiritual experience. [p.103]
Saturday, October 8, 2016
In the Land of Pain
October 7, 2016
Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. Edited and Translated by Julian Barnes.
Alphonse Daudet. In the Land of Pain. Edited and Translated by Julian Barnes.
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