Monday, June 28, 2010

Misty Mornings

I am definitely not a morning person, but early summer mornings are perfect for thinking. Now having fog introduced to provide clarity seems to fly in the face of reason, but it works. Having a shroud of fog evaporate before your eyes as the sun takes a hold on the sky creates a visual image of the thought process.

Life appears softer, less defined and more intriguing with fog. Fog envelopes you like a cold caress. Fog wakes you to the fact that the situation is transitory. Fog gives solid form to thoughts.

Fog gives permission to take your time, be extra sure of your surroundings, and cautious of possible outcomes. The more you think, the clearer the morning. And the clearer your thoughts.


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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Reading "tinkers" by Paul Harding

I just finished reading "tinkers" by Paul Harding and I admit that I have to read the book again. Not because I didn't get the plot, but due to the beautiful writing and elegant combinations of thoughts and reality. I suspect I may be haunted by this book (in a good way).

The scene of a dying man's last thoughts as his family life is revealed through vignettes of his memories is riveting. Each carefully crafted detail etches the life, in most cases, hard life of his past and his father's odd life, and the even stranger life of his father's father.

But more than the transitioning of this man into death is the story of his father's life. Spellbinding. Buy the book or get it from the library. No wonder it won a Pulitzer Prize.

http://www.blpbooks.org/books/tinkers.html

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