Geistbear Musing

Poetry Wednesday Yup it's back, been a dead meme of late, but all the driving I am doing will cause that and less frequent posting. Any luck and next week I'll be back to my blogging madness. The Enkindled Spring This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze. And I, what fountain of fire am I among This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed About like a shadow buffeted in the throng Of flames, a shadow that’s gone astray, and is lost. - D. H. Lawrence By the way don't let this poem fool you I still expect a major snow storm in Northern Ar...

Hmmm turn a book into a conversation , I love the idea.

An old roommate and I used to watch the World News hour on CNN, then one day it was gone I never understood why. Here is probably the reason such a shame I got more news out of the program than many newspapers. I suppose that is why I don't get my news from TV anymore, it's just too dumbed down a medium.

Salon has The confessions of a semi-successful author in which a midlist author discusses their woes (You can click on the one pass to read it). It's an interesting read, but contrasting it to my goals was the most useful part. Perhaps it's a difference of genre, but I don't have any immediate expectations that my writing will be my sole source of income anytime soon, maybe ever. It's part of the reason I worked to get in with a good company and steady income stream. Most science fiction writers have to have a day job I have realized it and accepted it about my intended field, sure I may write other stories but this will be my bread and butter. In other news I am editing and reediting the selection I am submitting for the Clarion workshop. Deadline looms, I haven't a clue how I'll afford it if I get accepted, or that my current employer would be flexible to give me the time off to go, but as another Writer mentioned in or Sunday circle, "if you really ...