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I'm tired of reading alone, so this year I won't.  In addition to the Back To The Classics Challenge 2012 , I will also participate in the Classics Challenge hosted by  November's Autumn .  Once a month I will answer a specific question about a book I'm reading. My list: The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton .  I've read some of Wharton's other work and enjoyed it.  Ethan Fromme rocks! Lord of the Flies by William Golding.  Never read it and was supposed to a long time ago. Passing By Nella Larsen. I didn't understand it and so hopefully this time I will. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This was a good movie so the book is probably even better. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.  The characters' struggle with their feelings make me think about how to deal with difficult issues. The Color Purple by Alice Walker.  Alice Walker is one of my favorite writers, but I have never read this book.  I'll cry through most of it. Lysistrata by

"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink."  Writer and painter Henry Miller   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller A La Durrell By Henry Miller

Keep singing in the name of peace.

In an attempt to finish my To Be Read list for 2011, I am participating in a readathon hosted by Dead White Guys  and The Soul of Thought. During the day I will be posting about what I'm reading.  I plan to read: The Dark Abode Sarojini Sahoo -  I have to read on the computer because I cannot find the book in English. Unbowed Wangari Maathai Winesburg Ohio Sherwood Anderson

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Little Things   http://www.carversite.com/story.html Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water. Streaks of it ran down from the little shoulder-high window that faced the backyard. Cars slushed by on the street outside, where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too. He was in the bedroom pushing clothes into a suitcase when she came to the door. I'm glad you're leaving! I'm glad you're leaving! she said. Do you hear? He kept on putting his things into the suitcase. Son of a bitch! I'm so glad you're leaving! She began to cry. You can't even look me in the face, can you? Then she noticed the baby's picture on the bed and picked it up. He looked at her and she wiped her eyes and stared at him before turning and going back to the living room. Bring that back, he said. Just get your things and get out, she said. He did not answer. He fastened the suitcase, put on his coat, looked around the bedroom bef

Blog Sarah Reads Too Much is hosting an all year long Classic Challenge for 2012.  To sign up go here .   My choices for the challenge are as follows: 1. 19th Century Classic - Incidents in the Life of a Slave by Harriet A. Jacobs. 2.  20th century classic - Lord of the Flies by William Golding.  Certain people have suggested this book.  The high school students in the county read this during the fall and I had to admit out loud that I had never read it.   3. Reread a classic of your choice. - It will be Passing By Nella Larsen. 4. Read a classic play. - At one time I owned a copy of Lysistrata by Aristophanes. 5. Read a classic mystery/horror/crime novel. - I'm going to try reading The Picture of Dorian Gray   by Oscar Wilde because I liked the movie. 6. Read a classic romance. -  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.  I am always mixing up those Bronte sisters. 7. Read a classic that has been translated into your language from its original language. - This was a hard one but I&

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The Sun's One Good Eye" By Ruth Forman the sun’s one good eye is on/you/rise up n shine like you sposed to ***************************************************************************** At first I thought this poem was about sunny days and how people are supposed to get up and appreciate the beauty of nature.  It irritated me because some days the shades around here are intentionally pulled down.   Then I said to myself "Wait a minute, I've got to try to question and examine this poem if I want to understand what it means." As usual if you have something to add to this blog post please do.  Help me. I looked at the title.  What is the sun's good eye?  In Egyptian mythology the sun god Ra represented life, energy, and creativity.  At different times and places Ra was also known as the deity Horus and it was (and still is) symbolized by a protective eye that watched over Egyptian Pharaohs.  Actually Egyptian religion is much more complicated than this, but I nee

About a month ago my brother and his girlfriend took my husband and I to Busboys and Poets on 14th and V streets in D.C.  http://www.busboysandpoets.com/about.php    The store/restaurant is small, crowded, and intimate.  They had many of the Chris Abani and Ruth Forman books in stock I want to buy when I have some money. The day we went they were having Rita Dove the next week.  People I live out in the suburbs, and we don't have poets like Dove stopping by.  As you can see, on this day they had Ruth Forman.  Video provided by Hedgebrook on Youtube.  http://blog.hedgebrook.org/ Poetry Should Ride the Bus By Ruth Forman poetry should hopscotch in a polka dot dress wheel cartwheels n hold your hand when you walk past the yellow crack house poetry should wear bright red lipstick n practice kisses in the mirror for all the fine young men with fades shootin craps around the corner poetry should dress in fine plum linen suits n not be so educated that it don't stop in every now n the

You see, it's like this; I have a habit of reading books that are not on my list.  As as direct result these books will have to pushed to 2012: African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader  by Gene Andrew Jarrett.  This book is a compilation of short stories and excerpts from novels.  I have read some it but not all.  It is the first book I will finish in 2012. Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong.  The third chapter on self compassion said to not go forward reading until the concepts it taught were a part of real life.  Next year I will be ready to move on. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Devil In A Blue Dress Walter Mosley   Free Enterprise Michelle Cliff The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.  This recently came out in paperback so I might buy it.  I had to keep taking it back to the library.

She's an author I have been wanting to read but haven't gotten to yet. Next year. From Mosaic: Almost all of your novels deal with the complicated relationship between blacks and whites in England and in the Caribbean. What do you try and teach your readers about race relations? I don’t really see myself as trying to teach, or, even worse, to preach to anyone. I am certainly not an expert in history or racism and certainly not in present-day race relations. I’m just interested in my Caribbean heritage and I use writing as a way of exploring it. I suppose I hope that by reading my books people will get interested too. Where that takes them is up to them. http://mosaicmagazine.org/blog/2011/11/06/andrea-levy/ http://www.andrealevy.co.uk/

Sun Lwas by Prospere Pierre Louis, Oil on canvas, 30″ × 40.″ http://www.galerielakaye.com/art_haiti_pierrelouis2.html  "The Sun's One Good Eye" By Ruth Forman the sun’s one good eye is on/ you/ rise up n shine like you sposed to

http://www.bookthing.org/history.html This is what I got for free in very good condition at The Book Thing of Baltimore: On Being 100    Liane Enkelis. The Portable Dorothy Parker Webster New World Dictionary    I needed a small one for the bedroom. The Great Train Robbery    Michael Crichton Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power    Kenneth B. Clark A House of Good Proportion: Images Of Women In Literaure   Edited by Michele Murray A Fanatic Heart    Edna O'Brien The Old Gods Laugh    Frank Yerby Meet Mr Mulliner    P.G. Wodehouse The books are lovely.  Getting them for free makes me feel loved.

Additive / Subtractive; Sensory Interactions Developed By A Geometric Algorithm The Graduate Thesis Show of Tim Vitek November 17 - 23, 2011 Opening reception November 17, 6 - 9 p.m. Artist Statement: When we remove all notions of symbolism and iconography the viewer is allowed to focus on color as content and experience a visual reaction within his or her own electromagnetic spectrum. By calculating a geometric algorithm, true gradation between colors is achieved. By incorporating an additive and subtractive method within this geometric algorithm, a unique spectrum of color is created. Placing random color fields composed with this algorithm side by side not only combines mathematics with intuition, but develops relationships that make tangible these interior movements of color. A grid system is created and becomes not a playground but a safe house for the exchanges of color. These movements of color are visually controlled experiences that allow the viewer to absorb a continuum of c

Michelle Grabner - Zach Mory Allison Svoboda - Matthew Woodward Guest Curator Elizabeth Whiting , Curator for the Union League Club of Chicago Reception and Artists' talk: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Remarks at 7 p.m. The "Ways of Making" exhibitions are a series of invitational art shows that focus on art making disciplines taught in the art program at GSU. By inviting professional artists to exhibit their work in our campus gallery, classroom instruction and conversations with students can be energized in new ways, and our GSU community can enjoy interacting with excellent art.

Janice Pratt Graduate Exhibition Nature Orchestrated October 3, - November 11, 2011 The Art on Campus program is activating wall spaces on campus with student, alumni, and community artwork. During Fall Semester 2011, A graduate thesis exhibition will be featured: Janice Pratt “Nature Orchestrated”. Exhibit will occupy across campus to enjoy the full effect of this artists’ work. Because this gallery is located in the public areas at GSU, the exhibit can be viewed any time the campus is open.

http://www.nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk/ Of course I've got to put my favorites out here. And who reads anthologies?  Judaye does because they work perfectly with her short attention span. The New Gothic: A Collection Of Contemporary Gothic Fiction   Edited by Bradford Morrow and Patrick McGrath Roman Fever And Other Short Stories   Edith Wharton The Complete Stories   Zora Neale Hurston The Lottery And Other Stories   Shirley Jackson. You Are Not A Stranger Here   Adam Haslett Classic Irish Short Stories   Selected and Introduced by Frank O'Connor In Love And In Trouble   Alice Walker The Best Of The South   Selected and Introduced by Anne Tyler Short Science Fiction Tales   Edited by Issac Asimov and Groff Conklin The Best Short Stories By Black Writers 1899-1967   Edited and Introduced by Langston Hughes Witches Brew   Edited by Yvonne Jacobs You know what?  I have a few more favorites, but I don't have the time or energy to put them all in this post.

Watch Welliver on PBS. See more from MPBN Specials. Neil Welliver (July 22, 1929 - April 5, 2005) was an American -born modern artist , best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine . Welliver was born in Millville, Pennsylvania . He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) and then received an MFA from Yale University . At Yale, he studied with the abstract artists Burgoyne Diller and Josef Albers , whose theories on color were influential. [1] Welliver taught at Cooper Union from 1953-1957, at Yale from 1956 to 1966, and in 1966 began teaching at, and eventually became chairman of, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Art, from which he retired in 1989. While teaching at Yale, Welliver's style evolved from abstract color field painting to the realistic transcription of small-town scenes in watercolor . In the early 1960s he went to Maine, where he began

There has been no public news about the search for the murderer(s) of Phylicia Barnes.  Phylicia Barnes is the teenager who came to Baltimore to visit her sister last Christmas and went missing.  Her body was found naked in the Susquehanna river around Conowingo Dam in April 2011.  Somebody knows what happened to her.  Those of you who know something about this should think about what could happen as a result of your silence.  Someone else could be killed.  Why would you want to be a part of something so depraved and vile?   If you know something please contact the police.  Do it anonymously if you have to. Whoever did this evil deed needs to be locked up for the protection of the public.  You have to know this girl did not deserve this.  Neither does her family and friends.  Just imagine if she were your baby, sister, niece, friend. As you know, my way of dealing with the black-hearted horror of this beautiful young woman's foul killing is poetry.  Even after death Phylicia Barnes

"Hands Washing Water" Even in the falling a train breaks for the light. The tunnel the darkness-never sweeter. The body is not real. Yet living. This living body. There is a child. The blessed coolness of water. And hands Chris Abani Chris Abani is an educated professional poet who uses the tools of poetry writing with artful intimacy.  I am not a poet and so I am struggling to understand this poem and the book of the same name. The poet or narrator of "Hands Washing Water" is saying that the human body is as good and a blessing to water as water is to the human body which is made mostly of water.  Human flesh and water are a part of one another. The body is as valuable of the rest of the creation. Free Verse is used because it allows the poet a somewhat less constrained, more malleable mode of poetic expression. This book of poetry by Abani is important because most of us have been taught that our flesh is sinful and we don't give its creator enough credit for

     Toni Morrison’s writing is multi-layered, thick and rich with complexity;   a person could read her novels over and over and still find something new to ponder in them.   She writes unforgettable  prose.   I wonder how she does what she does?   It must be a god given gift.      This fact is totally off topic, but Toni Morrison also has one of the most beautiful heads of hair I ever seen.  I will be examining a passage from chapter "1921" in the hardcover Borzoi version of Sula that was published in 1973 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. Brief summary of chapter “1921” Eva Peace, Sula’s Grandmother is married to BoyBoy and they have three children, Hannah, Pearl/Eva, and Plum/Ralph. They live in the hill community of Medallion, Ohio which is called The Bottom. BoyBoy deserts the family. After saving baby Plum’s life by curing his severe constipation, Eva leaves her children with a neighbor for eighteen months and then returns to build a large house three stories tall