As the snow keeps piling up around us in higher and higher mounds, as the snowplows rumble and scrape down our streets, what are you reading? What are you writing? What helps relieve your cabin fever?
Yesterday's poem of the day on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor was "Blizzard" by Bill Holm, a former colleague at Southwest Minnesota State University. I especially like this image: "dancing through the house / like a polar bear who thinks / it has joined the ballet."
As the snow keeps piling up around us in higher and higher mounds, as the snowplows rumble and scrape down our streets, what are you reading? What are you writing? What helps relieve your cabin fever?
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Marcy
2/2/2011 12:28:29 am
Marianne, I love the blog and the image of Bill Holm's about the ballet dancing polar bear surely must invoke a comment! During the snowstorm this week I've been reading 'Seabiscuit' by Laura Hillenbrand. I picked it up after reading her new book 'Unbroken' and have been completely enamored of her writing style and inspired by her ability to compile mountains of research into an interesting story while, at times, she is completely confined to her bed with CFS. And the people she writes about are pretty darn inspiring too. Louis Zamperini, Red Pollard. Too incredible to be real, but they are. They inspired Hillenbrand to inspire us. It makes you realize, if she write these books under such extreme circumstances, there are no excuses for the rest of us. Writing is the very thing that keeps her going even when she can't get out of bed. Writing has to be your reason for opening your eyes each morning. It's a glorious thing. On the other hand, my daughter has been enjoying time off from school by playing school and dancing around the house pretending to be a horse, a princess, a puppy, a dragon, and a sailor, in no particular order.
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Marianne Zarzana
2/2/2011 12:39:47 pm
Marcy, thanks for your comment! I'm glad you liked Bill's image from his poem. I enjoyed the image of your daughter dancing around your house pretending to be so many things... but NOT a polar bear! Thanks also for sharing what you've been reading. I've heard many good reviews of Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand is on my long list of writers I want to read. Yes, very inspiring to write books considering her condition.
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AuthorI love to play with words. To capture moments on the page. To explore the physical and spiritual geography of what I call "fly-over country." I write from imagination, observation and my own experience of wandering in fly-over country--the literal, physical spaces of my life on the Minnesota prairie and the inner territory of the soul. Archives
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