60th anniversary –
Mom doesn’t know
who Dad is
Author: bryon
Quotable 491
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
haiku 609
talking outdoors –
wispy cloud
eclipses a star
Quotable 490
Inactivity is more detrimental than wasting your time on something that doesn’t go anywhere because it will lead to something else.
– Jon Favreau
haiku 608
drought –
raindrops on the window
a foreign sound
Quotable 489
I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into the sandbox so that later I can build castles.
– Rachel Stirling
haiku 607
sudden honking –
over the parking lot
four Canada geese
Quotable 488
I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer.
– Blaise Cendrars
haiku 606
close enough
to hear the thunder
but no rain
Quotable 487
The trick is not to become a writer, it is to stay a writer.
– Harlan Ellison