Day 50: Blogging Middlemarch

Taste: snow peas and red peppers

Sight: dense fog

Sound: the dryer churning, rumbling

Smell: sewage

Touch: harp strings

Quotable:

"'I remember them all', said Will, with the unspeakable content in his soul of feeling he was in the presence of a creature worthy to be perfectly loved."

“I know why you stare at the mountain’s beauty,/for she reminds you of something vital in your self./And natural desires to explore her heights are just/there to help you reach your own summit.” — Why You Stare at the Mountain, Hafiz

“Everyone has the ability. Everyone has the joy of trying everything more than once and learning it, practicing…It’s part of the creative spirit to say I am all things like my universe I was born into, I am universal, I am not monochromatic, I am all and everything…it happens to be the truth about all of us, and suffering comes to us when we believe otherwise.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Mother Night

Extra: a dream in which she says, “Shame!”; a dream in which there is an extremely wealthy entrepreneur and a reporter and the possibility of wetsuits and looking for treasure on the shore and flotillas of guilt

A jolt of joy: making an appointment

Grateful for: flowing water

Comments

Springy story review: "State Change" by Ken Liu

Why it springs to mind: You'll never look at an ice cube the same way again. Where read: In the 2014 Hugo award-winning Lightspeed Magazine , August. Length: 5,194 words Summary: A woman has an ice cube for a soul. Memorable: How the story invites us to think about the shape of our soul, how it (or our perception of it) influences us and how it changes. What ordinary every day object would your soul be? A silver spoon, a beech stick? A great party conversation starter, this. Quote: “All life is an experiment." Notable: The protagonist Rina is an avid reader (always a good choice). Pairs well with: T.S. Elliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay Origin: The story was written in 24 hours based on a writing prompt. (See Author Spotlight: Ken Liu ) About the author: Ken Liu’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings , the first in a fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, is due out from Saga Press ( a new Simon & Schuster imprint ) in 2015.

What is Solarpunk? Good question, great answers from our community

What is solarpunk? My fellow Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers authors Commando Jugendstil and Tales from The EV Studio put together this video for the Turin International Book Fair . It features editors and authors from the solarpunk community sharing their thoughts. Together we're imagining optimistic futures based on renewable energy. My soundbite was: "Solarpunk futures are — green spaces with clean water that are pedestrian, collective, feminist, creative communities. And they include non-human animals. " Mary "solarpunk" Shelley cat did a great job (at 6:15) helping from her rather ridiculous cat tree which she absolutely loves. And what better time to wear this solar-colored "Veganism is Feminism" tee from The Herbivore Clothing Company . Seriously. I'm holding a stack of solarpunk books: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri which includes my story "Watch Out, Red Crusher!". Wings of R...

Springy story review: "Torching the Dusties" by Margaret Atwood

Why it springs to mind: Relevant thoughts about how we view aging and how we treat the aged in our society. In this story, young people protest the existence of old people in an assisted living facility for taking up resources. Not far from the callous viewpoint of people sometimes expressed in the national news. Where read: The last story in Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014) a collection by Margaret Atwood Summary: Wilma and her boyfriend Tobias escape an assisted living facility, Ambrosia Manor, that has come under attack by protestors carrying signs that say "Time to Go" and "Our Turn" who think the old people are just taking up space and resources. Memorable: the delightful use of Charles Bonnet Syndrome as a character trait for Wilma Quotes: "We have to be kind to one another in here, she tells herself. We're all we have left." "According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they're less capable of indignation and...

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