Thursday, March 1, 2012

And the winner is.....


The winner of a free copy of the 2nd Edition of Tell it Slant is......

Joe/Jack!

Congratulations Jack! I'll bring you your signed copy next week.

And thank you to all of you who showed such kindness and enthusiasm for the book.  Yeah!



Happy Birth Days!


Today is my birthday. I love birthdays. I'm not one of those modest types who fails to mention her birthday is coming up, who wants no fuss or bother.

Give me fuss! Give me bother! It's a wonderful chance to celebrate all of us being alive.

And so, for my birthday, I give you a present, my favorite poem by Czeslaw Milosz. May it bring you a little moment of beauty in a busy day:


Gift

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.