"Learn to write about the ordinary. Give homage to old coffee cups, sparrows, city buses, thin ham sandwiches. Make a list of everything ordinary you can think of. Keep adding to it. Promise yourself, before you leave the earth, to mention everything on your list at least once in a poem, short story, newspaper article." ~Nathalie Goldberg
Posted by kerismith at June 16, 2005 03:09 PMooh! I love this! Thanks, Keri!
Posted by: penelope dullaghan on June 20, 2005 12:58 PMRenee: Yes! :)
Posted by: Anja on June 17, 2005 10:47 AMKeri....I would like to know the source of the quotation.....I am a fan of Natalie too....Was it Writing Down the Bones....or a later publication?
Susan
Posted by: Susan Jonsson on June 17, 2005 09:52 AMRedbird matches are my favorite (because of the packaging). Last time I was in Quebec I bought about 12 boxes of them. Customs thought I was a little nutty, perhaps, but I got them home. I love seeing my favorite red bird in your gorgeous collage...
Posted by: dianna on June 17, 2005 09:23 AMah, the collages. so happy to see the bursts of color and scraps of paper appear. I seem to be all up in and about collage these days.
I love those words and I want to thank you for passing them onto all of us out here.
Posted by: andrea j on June 16, 2005 07:54 PM...or blog."
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I love your collages - they are so inspiring. I was wondering where you get the paper and different things that you include in them?
Posted by: Sari on June 16, 2005 05:52 PMWonderful collage and thanks for the quote.
Posted by: Karin on June 16, 2005 04:40 PMI've been missing your collages. This one is beautiful. I love the quote, wonderful practical advice, and still so poetic - Ms. Goldberg is no fool!
Posted by: Anja on June 16, 2005 03:31 PM