Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.      ~Henry Miller

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. ~Dan Barker

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

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Posted from the Grove:

Prewritten for Thurs (11/15) at 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is: horizon

First, a personal thank you to Greenie for editing last week’s Post & Review, and for matching her offer to the very week the office computer tendered its resignation. Greenie’s timing also led to the discovery that There loads and lags on a netbook, but it works. Who knew?

This week’s video is an old favorite and is dedicated to those who still endure the effects of Storm Sandy, the nor’easter that followed, or anyone feeling blue and left out at the moment. Musicians from around the world come together to say you’re not alone

~Playing for Change: Stand by Me                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&feature=share

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@Writers Platform

The Glass Library Table:                                                                            ~Greenie: Disappearing into You ~Raphael – Where piano strings are the sinews of being, eight minutes of serenity are Greenie’s gift this week; link provided

Prewritten: speechless, joke

~Stejovis: Unexpected Delight – A beast enters the arena, his family scatters before him, he advances on the surround of his audience loaded for attack; the great bull elephant raises his trunk to drench them with his foul slimy water, they scatter like chickens, he blows air and puffs of dust instead; they return to their places by the fence looking sheepish and chastened, the elephant seems to … laugh

~Piffin: .Sandy. – God’s cruel joke or mere irony that those swept to sea by Storm Sandy were the same swept away by their dreams of beach life

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Impromptu: frontier, amplify

~Piffin: .Return to Bliss. – The outside world spools out in words and thoughts shared; the world of love plays out on a linen stage

~Jessalee: frontier – Prairie fields and cattle lowing in the blue moonlight; the last untouched moment before the homestead stirs awake

Stejovis: The Experience of Anu – Spread beneath the stars and the sky god, Anu, the sacred mountain tops that mediate between the mundane world below and the Presence above, say of life: live the privilege and be grateful

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Writers in Residence:

~Jessalee @Creative Intentions: Unusual Weapon – When an actor responds to betrayal, expect drama; with drama, expect the bane of unintended consequences

~Greymane @Greyed Expectations 2: ~4~ of 6 – The Abyss that calls to the hopeless has another writer, toes at the edge, listening … but the call of dawn is stronger

Whitefeather @Dreaming Tree: Mist Haven – A young couple whispering in hushed tones, their new manse, a garden bench and an old oak become, decades later: the burned out shell of a home, a broken bench, an ancient oak and a young couple whispering intimately together before dissolving into mist

~Piffin @Cinderella Sneakers: If that chick don’t wanna know, forget her… – Lost souls, outcasts and prodigal daughters inhabit caves of the City, watch with undimmed eyes from the darkness, and build new things from the broken parts

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