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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 5:02:14 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled LoonSong:
Marion said, "The autumn air, the stillness of the water, the cry of the loon. If you long for time away from your daily grind, for days nestled in a quiet spot with beautiful views and inspirational people, a time to write and think, dream and..." more
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:28:50 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled A Tonic of Curiosity:
Marion said, "“It’s a contention of my father’s—believing as he does that those who miss the journey miss about all they’re going to get—that people become what they pay attention to. Our observations and curiosity, they make and remake us. “Maybe a..." more
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:22:41 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled How to Measure a Life:
Marion said, "How to measure a life? By mistakes gathered in mounds, in hills, in mountains? By years of anxious caution? The marriage that should not have been? The son born to be the hope of the world— the hope of my world— who defeated himself at every..." more
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:07:49 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Human Experience:
Marion said, "“The way we label things is the way they will appear to us. When we label a piece of the earth China or Brazil or the United States, it becomes an entity that carries strong emotional baggage. When we label something good, we see it as good...." more
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 2:43:06 PM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled On Writer’s Block:
Marion said, "I’ve never believed in writer’s block. That isn’t to say I’ve never had times when I couldn’t think of the next thing I wanted to write or those when I found myself becalmed in the midst of a project I had entered on a friendly breeze...." more
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:34:45 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Beneath the Surface of Everyday:
Marion said, "“Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.” −Freya Stark The post Beneath the Surface of Everyday appeared first on Just Thinking."
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:21:54 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled What If You Just Love to Write?:
Marion said, "Writing is the only one of the arts I know where people tend to assume that the only reason to do it is to be a professional. If you play the piano, no one asks when you were last on a concert stage. If you paint, no one asks what galleries or..." more
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 6:11:28 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Great Thing and the Hard Thing:
Marion said, "“The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.” −Janet Erskine Stuart The post The Great Thing and the Hard Thing appeared..." more
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:32:47 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled When the Answer is “No”:
Marion said, "I knew the call was coming. We had planned it that way, my agent, Rubin Pfeffer, and I. I’d decided it was time to get an informed answer about the marketability of the memoir I’ve been working on for the last couple of years. So I’d asked him..." more
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 5:49:59 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled We Are the Earth:
Marion said, "“If you will think of yourself as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of..." more
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:13:38 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Keeping a Long Career Alive:
Marion said, "The first time I did it, it was a challenge. I’d never thought of doing it before. In fact, when my MFA students at Vermont College of Fine Arts wanted to do it, I confess that I discouraged them. I’m talking about novels in verse, often called..." more
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 6:25:13 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Only Thing:
Marion said, "“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake in the middle of the night..." more
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:01:06 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Little Cat’s Luck:
Marion said, "I’ve always loved cats. From the time I was a child, I’ve had cats in my life. One cat, two cats, sometimes three. But a while back, after years and years of cats, I began to notice the way my eyes turned red, the way they swelled, the way they..." more
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:37:31 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Only Day There Is:
Marion said, "“Today is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there never will be another just like it again. It is..." more
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 5:08:50 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Hazard of Too Much, Too Soon:
Marion said, "Every writer, no matter how brilliant, needs editing. First she needs her own intense editing process, and then she needs an informed and objective eye to see beyond her own, too-close-in vision. That statement is so obvious as to hardly be worth..." more
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 6:04:24 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled A Lucky Day!:
Marion said, "Hurrah! This is the day! The day for what? The publication day for one of my favorite books. Little Cat’s Luck, a companion book for my earlier verse novel Little Dog, Lost, comes into the world today. And why is it one of my..." more
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 5:49:32 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled The Balancing Act:
Marion said, "Amen, Marion. And [teachers] can also stop making “judgments” like “you will never be a writer” or “your ideas are trite” or “writing is just not your thing, dear.” Yesterday I sat with a group of fellow creatives and it was..." more
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:45:12 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Our Job Here on Earth:
Marion said, "“And in turn the Heron asks, with shocking clarity as it flies from right to left and left to right: why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?” −Graham Joyce The post Our Job Here on Earth appeared first on Just..." more
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 6:20:44 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled You Probably Won’t Remember Me:
Marion said, "Hello! You probably don’t remember me, but I attended your session at the Young Author’s Conference at Bethel about fifteen years ago when I was in fifth grade. I was just going through some old photos and letters and I came across several..." more
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 6:15:06 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled To Dare, to Do:
Marion said, "“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured;..." more
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:22:29 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled LoonSong:
Marion said, "Writers need other writers. At every stage of a career. The newbie dipping a toe into the icy water of agents and editors and contracts and marketing plans and publication. The just-on-the-edge-of-success writer who has had one-too-many encouraging..." more
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 7:14:27 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Let Us Work Together:
Marion said, "“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” −Lilla Watson"
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 7:01:58 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled In Which Their Own Faces Shine:
Marion said, "Last time I wrote in this space, I talked about our need for diverse books, diverse books and diverse authors . . . a point on which, I assume, we all agree. All children, when they enter the world of books, need to be able to find their own..." more
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:51:53 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled I Ask Myself:
Marion said, "“In 1969, when I first entered the world of writing children’s literature, the field was nearly empty. Children of color were not represented, nor were children from the lower economic classes. Today, when about 40 percent of public school..." more
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 6:32:56 AM
Marion Bauer wrote a blog post titled Love is…:
Marion said, "“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” −Iris Murdoch The post Love is… appeared first on Just Thinking."