Capital: Old Clay

Helpers

Bayside

Out and about.

Reflections: 5 + 9

Reflections on Turning 59:

Sometimes I am arrogant enough to think my death will mean that no one will be reading books the way I do--and the world will suffer--and I mean that far less selfishly and less egotistically than that may sound.  Feel free to laugh.

I mean that I have read and have trained and have practiced to be a Reader, so I should be able to recognize and understand what is true and what is not true--and others will not have trained so long or so hard or so well as I have.

That's been my motivation as a teacher since 1990 (and even before, as a friend): to share, to guide, to model.

Reading well takes practice and guidance and more practice.

I think I have been a true reader since my early teens, and I have worked at it for decades and decades, trying to teach my own students to Read Like Readers, but more importantly to Read Like Writers.

I still need to write the books I want to write.

Not done yet.  That's the battle-cry.

Out and About

From the Water

Crime novel cover art
or social commentary?

Reading Around

Aye Aye, Captain

Captain (cat) and crew.

Lady of the Veils

Sleepy-Heads

Lady and Captain, Helping.

Captain Sleepy-Head

Lady Sleepy-Head

Lady, Looking

Old Clay: Mermaid and Wave

At the Top of the To-Be-Read Stack

Madeline Miller's CIRCE!

Morning!

Yard-Pal Continued

SIP: Reading Around

A few books in process.  I like to read a bit here and a bit there.

Copper Quixote

Rocinante by any other name . . . .


(All appreciation to Gustave Dore and his artwork.)

Favorite Lines

"Israel was Flint's gunner," said Gray hoarsely.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island --
the favorite book of my youth, a volume I still respect and enjoy.

Moya Cannon: "Eavesdropping"

I was reading around, the way I do, and then I hit upon this poem by Moya Cannon.  I have been there, have listened to the barnacles myself, and she captures the scene.  Beauty.  

Weary Scholar II