When
you write ...
write with all your heart ...
write it for yourself – as if you are
the only one who will ever read it ...
write the shit out of it!
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
DON’T text while driving!
Whenever I see one of
these, I check it out on Snopes to make sure it's genuine. This
one’s true. This photograph is of a
deadly collision that happened August 5, 2010, near Gray Summit, Missouri. The
pickup driver and a 15-year-old student both died. Thirty-eight other
people were hurt.
Accompanying
caption to photograph:
You see
that crumpled mess of gray steel and wheels under that bus and on the back of
the big truck?
That WAS a pickup truck!
The driver of that pickup truck was a 19
year old male, who had received and sent 11 text messages
in the 11 minutes prior to this crash. He rear ended the big truck
tractor at 55 MPH, causing his pickup to go up onto the back of
the big truck tractor, the school bus rear-ended both of them, running up and
over the pickup truck, and a second school bus that you can't see in the
picture, rear-ended the school bus you see here.
In all, the young man driving
the pickup WHILE TEXTING, DIED, and one student on one of the buses died.
Is
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
What's the story with this owl?
I
collect animated gifs and include them whenever possible on my blogs. This one reminds
me of Creative Writing classes at school. My teacher would pin an image to the
wall. Sometimes it was a historical picture, photograph, painting, sketch, or
even just a particular color with no image – just the color. He would ask us to
focus on the image throughout the lesson, to memorize it, take notes as we thought
of them.
The homework assignment was to write a story, poem, or piece of prose
based on that image.
Look at this image.
Look at the owl …
the surroundings …
how the owl is perched.
What’s
the story with this owl?
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri:
I read this when studying Literature.
It’s the classic poem of the ultimate journey, up through
Hell, Purgatory, eventually to Heaven …
I read that Warner Bros. has a script by Dwain Worrell.
If the movie is realized, I recommend all to read this
first.
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