Archive for April, 2012

Rhythm

Walpurgisnacht                                                             Beltane Moon As our northern European friends threw the wood on the bonfires and stripped off their clothes, I planted 100 green onions, 6 […]

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Conference World

Spring                                                            Beltane Moon   An odd afternoon.  Drove into Minneapolis, walked a good ways through a skyway connecting the Leamington ramp to the Minneapolis Convention Center, […]

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What Now?

Spring                                                                Beltane Moon Now what?  First draft put to bed.  In Kate’s hands now. Kate asked how I was doing this morning during our […]

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Later

Spring                                                           Beltane Moon There is, too, always a let down after finishing a first draft.  All that time, writing novels for most of us takes at […]

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Novel Endings and Art

Spring                                                   Beltane Moon Still reading Missing, catching up to the end, so I can write it.  That’s an amazing aspect of writing a novel.  I can read what I’ve written […]

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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no […]

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Legislature Lurches

Spring                                                                      Beltane Moon The legislature lurches toward adjournment, up ending decades of environmental legislation as it goes, e.g.  permitting relaxation, a […]

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Spring                                                           Beltane Moon This am read the last chunk of Missing, getting back into the flow.  I’ll start writing tomorrow morning.  Close. Lunch with Stefan today. […]

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The Humanities. Yeah.

Spring                                                         Beltane Moon “Reminding us that “professor” means someone professing a faith, Delbanco exhorts us to keep the etymology alive: “Surely this meaning is one to which […]

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See the Heads?

Spring                                                            Beltane Moon Coming north on Highway 10 (or east, I can never figure it out and I’ve lived up here 18 years) just before the […]

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