Stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do. ~ Ray Bradbury
Month: January 2019
Gazing at the Great Mount ~ Tu Fu
To what shall I compare
The Sacred Mount that stands,
A balk of green that hath no end,
Betwixt two lands!
Nature did fuse and blend
All mystic beauty there,
Where Dark and Light
Do dusk and dawn unite.
Gazing, soul-cleansed, at Thee
From clouds upsprung, one may
Mark with wide eyes the homing flight
Of birds. Some day
Must I thy topmost height
Mount, at one glance to see
Hills numberless
Dwindle to nothingness.
Today’s Reflection ~ Love
You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play. ~ Anne Sullivan Macy.
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #28
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. ~ Ray Bradbury
Today’s Reflection ~ Caring
“To the world you may be just one person, but to just one person, you may be the world.”
– Author Unknown
You Can Never Tell ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You never can tell when you send a word,
Like an arrow shot from a bow
By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind,
Just where it may chance to go!
It may pierce the breast of your dearest friend,
Tipped with its poison or balm;
To a stranger’s heart in life’s great mart,
It may carry its pain or its calm.
You never can tell when you do an act
Just what the result will be;
But with every deed you are sowing a seed,
Though the harvest you may not see.
Each kindly act is an acorn dropped
In God’s productive soil.
You may not know, but the tree shall grow,
With shelter for those who toil.
You never can tell what your thoughts will do,
In bringing you hate or love;
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier doves.
They follow the law of the universe—
Each thing must create its kind;
And they speed o’er the track to bring you back
Whatever went out from your mind.
Excerpt From
Poems of Power
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #27
There is only one type of story in the world. Your story. … At heart, all good stories are the one kind of story, the story written by an individual man from his individual truth. ~ Ray Bradbury
Thick is the Darkness – Henley
Thick is the darkness—
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway—
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.
William Ernest Henley
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #26
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. Make your own individual spectroscope reading. Then, you, a new Element, are discovered, charted, and named! ~ Ray Bradbury
Today’s Reflection ~ Love
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
– Eva Burrows
