In my Poetry Notebook...

10/14/2024

Please Describe How You Became a Writer
by Naomi Shihab Nye

Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come, Jane, come. Look, Dick, look. Were there ever duller people in the world? You had to tell them to look at things? Why weren’t they looking to begin with?

2 Comments

C Klatt

12/24/2024 11:05:49 am

I love this quote. "Why weren't they looking to begin with?" I think that this author and Mary Oliver would have Grand Conversations.

Laurie

1/2/2025 05:11:00 pm

Agree! (So nice to see you here.)

"Ideas
won't keep; something must be done about them."
~ Alfred Whitehead

A Charlotte Mason education leads to all kinds of ideas! Join me in keeping one or several of the notebooks she prescribed and discover the Science of Relations and the Art of Mindfulness.

Laurie

"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
~ Charlotte Mason

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