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Riehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyRiehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyCreating connections through the arts and across cultures. 
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Heart Talk?poem duet by Grace Madison & Ernest Dempsey
2008-05-24 23:44:00 “Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication. Speaking from the heart is the other half.” ?Sara Paddison, author Hidden Power of the Heart When I sent this quotation to my friend Grace Madison (she is the mother of Curt Madison, one of my high school chums who know bases in Alaska), she wrote back ... More About: Pakistan , Talk , Poem
St. Louis Poet Karen Smead Mondale: ?He would tell you he never was an arti
2008-05-23 19:10:00 I first met KAREN SMEAD MONDALE, long-time community activist and retired educator, last fall at a Duff’s River Styx poetry reading. She read at Duff’s this week as part of Loosely Identified, a St. Louis women’s poetry workshop, while I was on my Nashville audiobook recording trip, so I missed that treat. Karen Mondale at ... More About: Poet , St Louis
Lester Mondale, noted humanist, circles of inspiration?from Missouri to the
2008-05-23 18:26:00 R. Lester Mondale (May 28, 1904 to August 19, 2003) “I feel most truly myself, And at home in a universe of Living things and Galaxy-strewn skies About which the half Has never been told And, perhaps, Never will be told.” Lester Mondale, a man with big vision, lived a big-hearted life. Father of Karen Mondale (read poem “He would tell you he never was ... More About: Inspiration , Missouri , Humanist
George Lucas? fatherly advice for success in the arts
2008-05-21 16:45:00 Remember that ultimately going for the money is 100% wrong. Going for love of what you’re doing is sort of 60% right. You can fill that other 40% with a little practical thinking: I also want to make a living at this. I don’t want to starve. —George Lucas , Quoted in USA Today More About: Advice , Success , Arts
Nashville!
2008-05-20 14:34:00 It’s a pretty drive from St. Louis to Nashville (routes 64/57/24) that takes around 5.5 hours and crosses three rivers (Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee) and passes by many gorgeous large lakes (Rend/Egypt/Barkley) where I wanted to just stop and camp. The routes down are so aesthetically constructed without billboards and with so much foliage embracing ...
Riehl?s ?Sightlines? Spotlighted: Life in the Modern World on Dianne K. Sal
2008-05-18 14:40:00 Dianne K. Salerni offers monthly Spotlights of Independent Author Guild books on the pages on her High Spirited site. This month’s spotlight theme features non-fiction, poetry, and contemporary fiction for Life in the Modern World “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” shares good company with these other Independent Author Guild Members and their books. Floyd Orr Kevin Thompson Shirley Mahood Lynn Osterkamp Shannon ...
?On Writer?s Block,? by Victoria Nelson?simply the best!
2008-05-16 22:13:00 Victoria Nelson ’s “On Writer ’s Block ” covers the entire territory of writing process, not just the silences inherent in that process. It’s filled with marvelous quotations and wonderful tips. One I loved was: write your own review before the critics to so you’ll have something solid to lean against. This book belongs in every writer’s bedside library. More About: Victoria , Simply
Mara Purl: Koto at Lincoln Center then twirls to ?Child Secrets? awards upo
2008-05-16 20:10:00 Mara Purl, a colleague from Women Writing the West, knows the challenges and advantages of being multi-faceted in our artistic work. Mara says she’s a “hyphenate” (how cross-genre folks are designated in Hollywood.) She refers to her web site as “an eco-system with interconnecting gardens” and you’ll be amazed at the multi-talent you’ll find there. Here ... More About: Awards , Lincoln , Secrets , Child , Center
Writing Critique & Releasing Question: What other poems are inside this poe
2008-05-16 17:06:00 When you receive a “Listenback” from a critique on your work, what can you do next? Use the feedback you’ve received to set up exercises to try things out. Use this releasing question: What other poems are inside this poem? Editing and re-writing are like sculpting. More About: Writing , Question , Poems , Write , Inside
Barry Yelton?s ?In That Peculiar Space?: A Poet, dreams of infinity, a smal
2008-05-16 16:28:00 Barry Yelton and I met through the Independent Authors Guild. Barry is the author of Scarecrow in Gray, A Civil War Novel. Barry is also a marvelous poet, so far assembling around fifty poems towards a chapbook titled: “On Wings of Gentle Power,” a line from one of the poems, referring to the spiritual ... More About: Dreams , Space , Poet , Barry
Culture of Women in Ruth-Miriam Garnett?s novel ?Laelia?
2008-05-15 19:00:00 Laelia anceps What is a Woman? Strength and Sensuality I filled the bath and threw in a bath tea bag of lemongrass and green tea to relax and finish reading Ruth -Miriam Garnett ’s novel “Laelia.” Ruth-Miriam Garnett portrays the culture of womanhood in concentric circles from intimate homelife, to community, and hints at the broader swath of ... More About: Women , Culture
Smith Magazine?s Six-word Memoir Project (as heard on NPR)?and now?Story Ci
2008-05-15 03:52:00 Six-word memoir was hot this year. And, it’s fun as well. Some time back I phoned in my 6-word memoir: Country girl roamed. Home grazing sweetest. and my 6-word description of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” A downhome family lovestory beyond death. for the May Story Circle Network Podcast. Frankly, I’d forgotten all about it. Then, this morning on the Independent Authors Guild ... More About: Magazine , Word , Project , Smith
?Harlem Duet? sings: St. Louis Black Rep Company stages Djanet Sears? award
2008-05-15 00:28:00 Ruth-Miriam Garnett and I have great “bumping into each other” luck. I first met Ruth at the St. Louis Poetry Center gala last fall. Subsequently, we’ve magically bumped into each other 1) on the metro platform at the Central West End; 2) at Wole Soyinka’s talk at the Black Rep with her friend Lavelle Wilkins-Chin; ... More About: Company , Award , Sears
Writing Secrets: write when there?s no time to write?by Erwin A. Thompson
2008-05-13 16:51:00 Erwin A. Thompson , author of Thompson Western Series and Folk Treasure I will share my secret of being able to write when there is no time for writing. When I am in a boring job that only requires my presence, when I wake up at night and tend to remember all of the dirty deals that people ... More About: Writing , Time , Write , Secrets
All Mothers Day?for mothers and others?the truth of interconnection
2008-05-11 14:18:00 Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others. This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother…your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours. Taking it into present time….you are mine and I am yours. We nurture, cultivate, and ... More About: Truth , Mothers Day , Mothers , The Truth
Donation Sustains Music Program: Erwin A. Thompson in the news
2008-05-10 20:55:00 At the Writers Club Reception this week Pop said, “If I’d have to choose between music and writing, I’d be hard put to choose.” With this set of articles in The Telegraph this week, looks like he doesn’t have to. Pop’s a newsmaker! At 92 he’s on a roll! On May 8, 2008 at 11:08PM Telegraph’s ... More About: News , Music , In the News , The News , Donation
Thompson?s Literary Legacy honored at AHS: Writing His World?from 1932 to t
2008-05-10 00:11:00 Erwin A. Thompson & Janet Grace Riehl, father-daugther writing team Click here to read article “The Write Stuff: Writers’ Club Co-Founder speaks to students” by Stephanie Kiszczak in The Telegraph online. At the AHS Writers Club end of year celebration yesterday the past met the present and moved right on into the future. Faculty, students, friends, family, and ... More About: Writing , World , Legacy , Literary
Dempsey?s Tuanortsa previews ?Two Candles?
2008-05-09 22:52:00 My Man in Pakistan, Ernest Dempsey (aka Karim Khan)—a Man of Letters who is an author, editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer—responded to May Garsson’s challenge to write a poem in the experimental Tuanortsa form. Ernest Dempsey is a moving force with World Audience. He is President of World Audience, a publishing consortium, and editor-in-chief ... More About: Candles
VE Day: 1945?Edward R. Murrow reporting
2008-05-08 15:40:00 The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE - GERMANY SURRENDERS! Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”. Go to CBC News ...
Botswana?s Bessie Head: A Meeting with Barbara Bamberger Scott
2008-05-07 16:42:00 A refugee is a person whose heart has been broken. “My daughter, who was 11 at the time, also loves Bessie’s books and was deeply influenced by living for two years in Botswana . One of my favorite expressions from there is Ke moto fela - “I’m just a person.”–Barbara Bamberg Scott (Read her impressive ... More About: Head , Meeting
?Tunanortsa??poetry call for Clive Matson?s ?Crazy Child Scribbler?
2008-05-06 15:48:00 Hello poets! May Garsson (maygarsson@yahoo.com) is collecting submissions for Clive Matson’s publication Crazy Child Scribbler using a new form called “tuanortsa” (astronaut spelled backward). This is a simple form, a poetic palindrome that reads more or less the same from top to bottom as from bottom to top. Here’s an example May gives (taken from an excerpt ... More About: Poetry , Write , Call
?Second Love,? new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
2008-05-06 04:32:00 Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary Second Love by Erwin A. Thompson For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006 My first love was like a pansy, brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass. A late frost took its vicious toll. That love was never meant to last. My second love was like ... More About: Poem , Erwin
Happy May Day?Happy Mothers Day?My Mother?s Second Anniversary?We?ll be Ste
2008-05-01 13:46:00 Flora, Goddess of Flowers May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on ... More About: Anniversary , Mothers Day , Happy , Mother , Mothers
What Use Is the Poet? William T. Dawson?s ?Snow Blindness?
2008-04-30 21:33:00 The Poet gropes in the darkness for the switch knowing that the light that is sought lies within. –William T. Dawson I met William Dawson when I told a story at last year’s Sunflower Festival in Mountainaire, New Mexico. We shared supper on his simple terrace as we gazed across the desert leading up to the ... More About: Snow , Blindness
Argentine Poet Juan Gelman wins Cervantes Prize in Spain
2008-04-30 20:28:00 Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.” Read entire article in International Herald Tribune (Culture section) by clicking here….Argentine poet Juan Gelman receives Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor To read Gelman’s work in ... More About: Spain , Poet , Wins
Riehlife Poems of the Day:
2008-04-30 18:40:00 Riehlife National Poetry Month Editor Stephanie Farrow writes: Dear Friends, It has been such a treat to share poetry during this past month. Thank you all for participating! Because today is the last day, I?d thought initially that the final poem should be deep and meaningful, inscrutable perhaps and profound—something along the lines of what the New ... More About: Poems
Barry D. Yelton, ?Scarecrow in Gray? author, hails from hill country of Nor
2008-04-30 16:48:00 Barry D. Yelton, author of Scarecrow in Gray, (September 2006, Universe ) based roughly on the Civil War experiences of his great-grandfather is currently at work on the sequel. Barry says: As to my work, I am a bit of a poet, a bit of a novelist, and a whole lot of Southern. I come from the hill ... More About: Country , Author , Hill , Barry
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Martín Espada?s ?Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
2008-04-30 01:16:00 ALABANZA: IN PRAISE OF LOCAL 100 Martín Espada Alabanza[excellent video!] (for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 working at the Window on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center ) Alabanza.Praise the cook with a shaven head and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with ... More About: Poem , National Poetry Month
Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life
2008-04-28 21:30:00 Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that make up our ... More About: Life , Blog
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Galway Kinnell?s ?Blackberry Eating,? from ?Morta
More articles from this author:2008-04-28 15:57:00 Blackberries “en bushed” Sign of the times: Google “blackberry” and what comes up is a mechanical device, not a fruit. To find the fruit on Google, you must type in “blackberry fruit.” Vis: more people have likely held Blackberry devices in their hands these days than have gone berrying and experienced the pleasures Kinnell describes in ... More About: Poem , Galway , Eating 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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