by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 6, 2012 | Write Thinking
Anyone who knows me or reads me regularly knows how much I enjoy The Writer’s Almanac (courtesy of Garrison Keillor) delivered to my mailbox each day. Big thanks to my friend Erin for introducing me a while back to this lovely nugget of daily history. Oftentimes...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
On many a day I give thanks for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, but every so often it speaks to me in an extra special way. This poem for me evokes the way I feel when I am sitting at the Hudson River waterfront, not among trees, but in a...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Apr 23, 2012 | Write Thinking
Love this from yesterday’s Writer’s Almanac courtesy of Garrison Keillor. It’s by Anne Pierson Wiese: Everything But God In Europe you can see cathedrals from far away. As you drive toward them across the country they are visible—stony and roosted on...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 12, 2011 | Write Thinking
Clearly it is time for some Pablo Neruda poetry in my life. Today’s sampling in Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac whet my appetite. So beautiful. The last line is one of the most romantic things I’ve ever read. From Twenty Love Poems and...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 27, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Loved this Pablo Picasso quote from a recent edition of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: “Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which...
