Today at HarperTeen's MySpace I'm blogging about weather and how it shapes my prose. A subject I likely would not have razzled up for consideration had not the ever-dear Lisa Bishop written earlier in the week and said, "How about a blog entry for our site?" Lisa and I spend most of our email time talking about movies. I just saw "Milk." She just saw "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Frost/Nixon" (both high on my list of wanna sees). Today she was telling me about "Happy Go Lucky." I hadn't known about that movie until she told me.
Imagine all the things I do not know. Oh. It pains me to imagine.
In any case, the world here went from snow to sleet to rain (to many people without power), and while I tried to capture the metamorphosis with my camera, I failed. Everything gray, meaning everything bleak, meaning no contrasts, which is what a photo needs. When I can't capture my world, I have a harder time feeling as if I've lived it. I want to go back and do the day again. Give me some vivid, I plead with someone, something. Give me some something to hold onto.
Tomorrow is another day. I'll go back out there. Intrepid.
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 1/28/2009
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 12/23/2008
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I'm fond of adjectives; you know that I am. But I've had a bit of a wrestle with them lately. A walk around. A glare. Maybe it's all those wordy books I've been reading lately (the writer as autodidact, c'est moi). Or maybe I've been thinking that these blog entries have grown mighty polyphiloprogenitive. (Are you thinking that, too? Were you afraid to mention it?)
Whatever it is, the adjective is on my mind. I've posted some thoughts about its best self at MySpace/HarperTeen today.
Thanks once more to Lisa Bishop, who is about to head home, she says, and watch a really grand movie. (Which one?)
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 10/22/2008
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My dear Seattle-transplanted-to-the-big-apple friend Lisa Bishop (over at HarperTeen) has posted some of my recent musings on process. Here again we meet up with the ever-wise John Steinbeck while bumping up against the ever-churning yours truly.
If you have some time, I hope you'll visit. You'll get to meet Anna Godbersen, Ellen Schreiber, Carol Snow, and Susan Juby while you are there.
http://www.myspace.com/harperteen
I have wanted to redo many, many days. I wish I could.
But you have words, Beth, that you use to capture and make vivid your days. (I do like this photo because some days just seem to lack contrasts.)
Oh yes,I'm eager to see some of those movies, too, if only they'd come to this small town.
The photo with this post is fascinating because it looks to me like a slide under a microscope...like something cellular and morphing...something completely different than what it is.
I know the gray is not what you wanted, but it's cool nonetheless.
XO
Anna