Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art
I am in the second or third draft of my own memoir, and have finally solved the problem of structure, I believe.I love the structure of Laurie Lee's memoir.I have loved Cider with Rosie for well over a decade. Laurie Lee's writing is so exquisite, so … [Continue reading]
The Second Book Bloggers Meet-Up This is to announce that there will be another Book Bloggers' Meet-Up on Saturday September 25th in Oxford. Venue and time are tbc, but that should be enough info for now to let you know … [Continue reading]
I am in a bad mood, Irritable, cross, Tinder waiting for a match. How then do I ask For your Spirit To inhabit This tense habitation Of grumpiness? But need I hesitate? You are a … [Continue reading]
Anne Lamott in Travelling Mercies. “Here are the two best prayers I know: “Help me, help me, help me” and “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Sometimes when one is exhausted, overwhelmed and overwrought that is all one is capable of. Isn’t it … [Continue reading]
The Alpine Path, The Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Creator of Anne of Green GablesThe Alpine Path:The Story of My Career.L.M. MontgomeryWhen the Editor of Everywoman's World asked me to write "The Story of My Career," I smiled with … [Continue reading]
Happy Insensibility IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them 5With a sleety … [Continue reading]
To a Young Child 1Margaret, are you grieving 2Over Goldengrove unleaving? 3Leaves, like the things of man, … [Continue reading]
I love this poem. Isn't it almost perfect?In Memory of W. B. Yeatsby W. H. AudenIHe disappeared in the dead of winter:The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,And snow disfigured the public statues;The mercury sank in the mouth of … [Continue reading]