[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: Fwd: The Writer's Almanac for June 18, 2014

Stewart Dickson mathartspd at gmail.com
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Subject: 	Fwd: The Writer's Almanac for June 18, 2014
Date: 	Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:50:05 -0500
From: 	Dara Llewellyn <dara.llewellyn08 at gmail.com>
To: 	Stewart Dickson <MathArtSPD at gmail.com>



Seems like a perfect poem for the makers' movement.

Dara

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        Wednesday


        Jun. 18, 2014

	


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    XI

by Wendell Berry 
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The need comes on me now
to speak across the years
to those who finally will live here
after the present ruin, in the absence
of most of my kind who by now
are dead, or have given their minds
to machines and become strange,
"over-qualified" for the hard
handwork that must be done
to remake, so far as humans
can remake, all that humans
have unmade. To you, whoever
you may be, I say: Come,
meaning to stay. Come,
willing to learn what this place,
like no other, will ask of you
and your children, if you mean
to stay. "This land responds
to good treatment," I heard
my father say time and again
in his passion to renew, to make
whole, what ill use had broken.
And so to you, whose lives
taken from the life of this place
I cannot foretell, I say:
Come, and treat it well.

"XI" by Wendell Berry from /This Day/. © Counterpoint Press, 2013. 
Reprinted with permission. (buy now 
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It's the birthday of novelist and short-story writer *Jean McGarry* 
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born in Providence, Rhode Island (1952). She grew up in a working-class 
Catholic family, and when she entered Harvard she became the first 
person in her family to attend college. She worked as a journalist for 
/The/ /Pawtucket Times /and the /Detroit Free Press/. She said: "The 
main thing about a newspaper is what not to say. There is a vast area 
that is too personal, critical, or controversial. There's probably more 
fiction in an obit than any other writing." She went back to graduate 
school and became a professor and writer. Her books include /Airs of 
Providence /(1985), /The Courage of Girls /(1991), /Dream Date /(2002), 
and /Ocean State /(2010).

She said, "Bad men make for more interesting stories."

It's the birthday of *William Humphrey* 
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born in Clarksville, Texas (1924). He left Texas as a young man to try 
and make his way as a playwright in New York City. He bounced from job 
to job until he found work as a goatherd in rural New York, tending 
goats and chickens in return for a place to live and $25 a month. In the 
solitude there, he began writing stories. He hadn't graduated from 
college himself, but on the strength of three published stories and a 
good interview, he got a job teaching at Bard College. Eventually, he 
was able to write full-time, mostly stories and novels about life in 
small-town Texas, including /Home from the Hill /(1957), /The Ordways 
/(1965), and /September Song /(1992).

He said, "There is nothing on earth harder than being humorous, nothing 
worse when you fail."

It's the birthday of writer *Amy Bloom* 
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born in New York City (1953). She worked with pregnant teenagers and 
autistic kids, and she said, "I realized that I didn't find other 
people's problems as boring as many people seem to." So she decided to 
make a living from it. First she worked as a psychotherapist, but she 
found herself wanting to write, and she began writing short stories. Her 
first collection, /Come to Me /(1993), got great reviews and was 
nominated for a National Book Award. She continued to write, and her 
books include /Love Invents Us /(1997), /Away /(2007), and /Where the 
God of Love Hangs Out /(2009). Her novel /Lucky Us /will be published 
next month.

She said: "There are no general stories. One doesn't hear general 
stories as a therapist. One hears unbelievably specific, intimate, 
detailed stories. There is no big picture. There is only this particular 
moment in this particular life."

It's the birthday of novelist *Richard Powers* 
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born in Evanston, Illinois (1957). When he was in his early 20s, he was 
working as a computer programmer in Boston. He spent every Saturday at 
the Museum of Fine Arts, where admission was free in the morning, and 
one day he saw a photograph from 1914 of three farm boys headed to a 
dance. He was so inspired that he quit his job on Monday and spent the 
next two years writing his first novel, /Three Farmers on Their Way to a 
Dance /(1985). He thought those two years would be a break before he 
went back to real work, but the novel did so well that he was able to 
remain a full-time writer. He has written 11 novels, including /The Gold 
Bug Variations /(1991), /Operation Wandering Soul /(1993), /The Echo 
Maker /(2006), and, most recently, /Orfeo /(2014).

He said, "The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and 
refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up 
an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any 
conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable."

It's the birthday of poet Carolyn Wells 
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(books by this author 
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born in Rahway, New Jersey (1862). She contracted scarlet fever when she 
was six years old, and it left her almost completely deaf for the rest 
of her life. She worked as a librarian and went on to be a very prolific 
writer, publishing more than 170 books. She wrote crime fiction, 
humorous poetry, and children's books. Her books include /Idle Idylls 
/(1900), /The Nonsense Anthology /(1902), /The Clue /(1909), /The 
Technique of the Mystery Story /(1913), and an autobiography, /The Rest 
of My Life /(1937).

She wrote:
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.^®


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