Today’s poetry challenge on Poetic Asides blog was what would you do if you suddenly got a million dollars. I know what I’d do! “Lightness” Million dollars flutter down;my shoulders unburdenfrom the debt. Technorati Tags: Poetry
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The Job Sessions are Completed
I have completed my series on Job with the addition of the fifth and sixth sessions. At last! This Old Testament book of poetry from the Bible is both difficult and compelling. It’s like a friend to suffering people everywhere, yet hides its treasure in long, inscrutable lines of poetry. I have been living with…
Chopper Trip into the St. Elias Mountain Range, Yukon
So we’re driving along the Alaska Highway in the middle of nowhere, literally. Not the usual definition of nowhere, where there’s still a town just down the road or a shack that-a-way. No, this is nowhere. No other cars for long periods of time, no shacks, no people, no nothing. And then all of a…
Session Four on Book of Job Up!
I’m getting better and better at the PowerPoint thing, well, the OpenOffice Impress-export-to-PowerPoint thing, to be honest. I’m learning about how different forms of media can enliven a presentation, and how difficult it is to find just the right video (or to make one) to illustrate what I’m trying to say about Job and his…
Third Session on Book of Job Now Uploaded
Well, I’m getting into the swing of writing these Sessions on the Book of Job (in the Old Testament of the Bible) and have now uploaded Session Three, which is on Job’s response to his friends’ speeches and to his suffering. As I mentioned earlier on this blog, I am writing a series of sessions…
Uploaded Second Session on Book of Job
As I mentioned earlier on this blog, I am writing a series of sessions on the Book of Job in the Bible, to guide people when they are reading it or studying it, as it is a long and complex piece of poetry. I’ve uploaded an introductory article and the first session already. Now I’ve…
Book of Job: Session One is Up on the Web
The Book of Job in the Old Testament of the Bible is one many people who’ve suffered hardship turn to. Yet this long book of poetry with its seemingly tedious middle part is not an easy read. While sufferers can identify with Job, and Bible readers can enjoy the beginning and the ending, the rest…
Area 224 Interview with Moi, Shireen Jeejeebhoy
Area 224, based in Chicago, are strategic communications advisors to emerging brands, and last week I spoke to Dave on Twitter when he was looking for people to interview for their blog. Apparently, a writer is a brand! And so I was on!! He asked me very different questions from the usual, and it was…
A Personal Day of Remembrance
On this day exactly, almost three decades ago, my Grandma died for no reason. She’d just come through quadruple-bypass surgery when on the 19th at 2 am, she sat up, said, “I can’t breathe,” and died. A few days earlier when I’d first seen her post-surgery, she’d looked vulnerable and scared underneath her oxygen mask…