Note from Claire
“To say ‘silence’ in Spanish, you have to say, ‘yes’ twice. Accept it. Just as it sounds without inquiring into it.” –see-lén-see-oh Claire was recently on a five-day Silent Retreat.
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Note from Claire
“To say ‘silence’ in Spanish, you have to say, ‘yes’ twice. Accept it. Just as it sounds without inquiring into it.” –see-lén-see-oh Claire was recently on a five-day Silent Retreat.
Libraries
A big library really has the gift of tongues and vast potencies of telepathic communication. Northrop Frye
Photo Meditation/112
I’ve been reading volume four of Proust’s Selected Letters, translated into English by Joanna Kilmartin. I liked this passage from a letter to a Madame Greffulje– “When you refused me once before, you gave me…
A P.S. in a Letter from Claire
P.S. Virginia Woolf Did not go to graduate school.
Claire Writes Me, After 90 Minutes at Northwest Coffee
You are seed, sower, sown You are earth With you I am seed, sower, sown With you I am earth
Share the Wealth with Claire Peterson: Dancing Joy in the Eternal Ephemeral (Or—Why Everybody and Their Mother Should Take a Dance Class)
“Every faculty, every nerve is bent on communicating a definite idea. Not one iota of energy is wasted in fear.” -Agnes de Mille This Sunday, I will share what I have learned on my journey…
My Relationship with the Dictionary by Claire Peterson
Last night in the Dear Layla Writing class, we considered the themes of “Words” and “Reading” as we read aloud part of the Lexicon and Reading series in my novel. Claire Peterson wrote the following…