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F Is for Flight

Ever since someone suggested that “angels can fly because they take themselves lightly”—I’ve considered the metaphor of Flight one of my favorite one-word “lifts” (pun intended).Examples of the pleasantness and implied liberation of the word Flight abound.We recently re-watched our DVD of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” with its stunning soundtrack, and always, afterwards, it is the Gospel hymn “I’ll Fly Away” that most compellingly sticks in my mind.Poet James Dickey said that “Flight is the only truly new sensation” anyone has achieved in modern history.  Read more >

Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold

I’m not sure exactly how I arrived at the title for my new book, a sequel to my mother-daughter dialogues in Becoming Flame (2010). But reading this quote by Robert Johnson itself would have been enough:“Whether called faith, destiny, or the hand of God, slender threads are at work bringing coherence and continuity to our lives. Over time they weave a remarkable tapestry.”And so I have subtitled Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom.  Read more >

E Is for Eye

“Eye” is not only the essential human organ of sight: “one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull” (Dictionary.com). It is also a superb metaphor for the visionary skill of the poet; and, at times, of focus for the spiritual life as well.“The eye altering alters all,” wrote the poet William Blake. And in Matthew 6:22, Jesus said that “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”  Read more >

A Fragile Grace and the Power of Memory

Poet Diane Marquart Moore in her latest stunning book writes of her family’s wild trip in an old blue coupe in the 1940s, chasing after her father’s dream of living in California (“Diddy Wah Diddy” to him)—from southern Louisiana across the wide country of desert and plain.In the title poem Post Cards from Diddy Wah Diddy she writes:Cards telling stories of being there,yet being here, casting shadows in my life.  Read more >

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Isabel_Anders
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Book author of Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom

http://revmoore.blogspot.com/2012/04/spinning-straw-weaving-gold.html

http://www.blogher.com/spinning-straw-weaving-gold-introductory-excerpt

and Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom

http://tinyurl.com/7ez4nw4

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