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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton discuss Philosophy Bites: the book

David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton discuss Philosophy Bites: the book
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WICHTIG!

Ich musste das New Ladies Calling Blog entfernen, da er nicht mehr funktioniert hat. Aber es ist möglich, dass jemand auf die Idee kommt, dahin zu gehen und findet jetzt nichts. Sorry. Feedback gab es nicht, daher nehme ich an, dass wenig Interesse bestand. Ich bin nach wie vor unter meinem GMX Adresse zu erreichen (aber auch unter GMAIL).
Ob ich einen Blog wieder schreibe hängt davon ab, ob die Gruppe wieder um Singen zusammenfindet, was ich allerdings immer mehr bezweifle.

Bleibt gesund!

my other blogs and books

  • Blue Murder (new)
  • New Ladies Calling (German)
  • friends for life (price 1) review soon
  • finch's folly (price 2) review 2020
  • barndance (price 3)review 2020
  • bell tower blues (price 4) review 2020
  • too many cooks? (price 5) review 2020
  • kelly's secret (price 6) review 2020
  • beachhut murders (price 7) review 2020
  • spiritual murders (price 8)review 2020
  • revue murders (price 9) review 2020
  • murder to go (price 10 review 2020
  • choral killings (price 11) review 2020
  • pensioners' party (price 12) review 2020
  • lucky 13 (price13) review 2020
  • the dream (price 14) review 2020
  • the monks of grumpsfield (price15) review2020
  • a start in life (autobiographical sketches)
  • doodle-dallying (ink art)
  • russian doll poetry
  • stories for Simon

Thoughtful Quotes

Our patience will achieve more than our force
(Edmund Burke)

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
(Oscar Wilde)

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness – mine, yours, ours – need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.
(Parker Palmer)

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Thoughts are things

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography (Federico Fellini). Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.(Buddha) You are what you settle for. You are ONLY as much as you settle for.(Janis Joplin 1943-1970) Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.(Henry van Dyke, poet 1852-1933) "I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." (Albert Einstein)

New Quotes

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." (Emile Zola)

“The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act of writing… a special, indispensable form of talking to myself.” (Oliver Sacks)


Good advice

I came across the comment below and I think it's the nearest I've come to what writing is all about. I love writing, especially novels and poems. I write for myself but also because I've nothing else much to leave behind. I want to write books and poems for my grandson, even if they never want to read them. The heritage thing also applies to some, but not all of my paintings. Anything you create with love and passion is something to leave behind - evidence of energy and imagination that live on!

Here's what Steven James writes in his "Story Trumps Structure" (nothing to do with the US president! trumps = triumphs over):

"To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what could go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension - that's your plot, If your protagonist has no goal, makes no choices, has no struggle, you have no plot."

Comment: I find that this quote applies to life, really, but definitely to the fictional world writers create.

Sad but true

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished?
Yes, work never begun.
Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)

Fragrance of yellow flowers

Maud hobbled down the street

Her wornout shoes curling up at the toes

Her stockings sagging and her clothes awry

From under the knotted scarf

A few wisps of greying hair escaped

To frame her wrinkled weathered face.

I mustn't be late

She admonished herself

And hurried towards the meeting place.

Just once a year she came back again

To the place where the yellow flowers grow

The March wind had howled with grief and pain

And swept the last November leaves away

And cleansed the air

And awakened the trees

And rocked the birds

And filled the yellow trumpet flowers with fragrances

More lovely than a thousand scents.

Maud blinked and paused for breath

The yellow flowers nodded their heads in the breeze

And whispered messages that only Maud could hear.

And her heart was young and joyful again

And her stockings were silk and her hair was fair

And a caring arm encircled her waist

And the trumpets sounded within her soul.


Maud sat alone among the daffodils

And listened to the voices of the past

And spread her arms out wide

And nodded her gratitude

For the lasting fragrance of yellow flowers

(c) faith puleston


More poems can be found HERE.

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