Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove: 
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
~Martin Buber

I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.
~Cobie Smulders

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
~R Buckminster Fuller

EndQuote:
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~John Steinbeck

Quotes harvested:   www.brainyquote.com
Curated:  Wordgrove

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs – Soon Again:   coffee, vacant

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Posted from the Grove Travel Edition:  On the road again…

Thoughts On Travel: Quoted
Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.
~Tom Freston

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked ‘on.’ Suddenly, you’re alert to the secret patterns of the world.
~Pico Iyer

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
~Francis Bacon

EndQuote:
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot – travel all the same!
~Jules Verne

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~Postmodern Jukebox, ft. Casey Abrams & Snuffy Walden:  Africa   (5:55)

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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
~Alexander Chase

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
~Al Boliska

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.
~Satchel Paige

EndQuote:
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
~Al Gore

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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called ‘openness to experience.’ People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.
~Jonathan Haidt

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There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life – and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life’s ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
~Michael Leunig

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~Tony Bennet:  I Left My Heart…   (2:46)

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The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it’s ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they’ve never met.
~Brian Chesky

Travel teaches toleration.
~Benjamin Disraeli

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
~Ella Maillart

EndQuote:
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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~Sabrina Carpenter:   Paris    (3:47)

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I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
~Rosalia de Castro

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
~T S Eliot

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George A Moore

EndQuote:
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~Matsuo Basho

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@Writers Platform

This editor will be traveling and expects to resume The Post & Review within a couple weeks. With fewer distractions and more time on hand, in a new land, Wordgrove’s writing club will resume Thursday evening meetings. Notice will be sent approximately one week in advance.

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Prewritten:   contrary, pad

~BarTalk:
Poem by A Stream

Her tormented writing pad
Turns pages into doors
Her contrary writing lad
Token sad poems gone bad
Ventilated out-of-doors

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5-7-5 x 3

padded resume
contrary path to success
that slyly earns it
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her chic writing pad
contrary to Vogue’s advice
a pen is needed
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white lotus blossoms
lily pad coronations
shed contrary mud

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Quoted In The Grove:
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~Samuel Johnson

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~Theodore Isaac Rubin

EndQuote:
I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.
~Lady Gaga

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 09/26:  pad, contrary

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Posted from the Grove

~ESMA:  Farewell    (7:20)   Goodbye – The gift of letting go – a video

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Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
~Susan Hill

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:   litmus, pipe

~BarTalk:
5-7-5 x 4

litmus politics
religions of love at war
peace pipe as fiction
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illicit pipe smoke
failed corporate litmus test
fired as the mascot
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red and blue litmus
royal purple paint piped in
divorce the answer
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make some sense of it
Life Of Pi pelagic tale
English Lit must do

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Quoted In The Grove:
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
~Bill Watterson

There is one other definition of shmeer, used in Israel, similar to the idiomatic American expression “to fudge”, as in intentionally writing something that is difficult to decipher, like an exam answer, to conceal the writer’s lack of knowledge.
~Joe Hoffman

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
~George Orwell

EndQuote:
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
~Quintilian

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 09/19:  litmus, pipe

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Posted from the Grove

~Diane Ackerman:  Famous writers and their odd ways of writing
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/writers-91219?e=7517c06f38

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~Abba:  Their Last Video   (6:24)

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  skirt, monastery

~BarTalk:
Ink Dirt

Skirting the issue of chasing skirts
Plying the monk trade for what it’s worth
Playing the rhythm game voiding issues of birth
Mysteries of The Monastery the author’s new work
Stories of heart told from a hearth gone dark

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Sublimation

The nuns the monks and their monsters
Want catharsis
Want to go ecstatically bonkers
No music no dance of a current age
No comics no headlines or editorial page
Where skirted costumes abound
There’s great fun to be found
Their Monastery Rag is a rage

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5-7-5 x 2

skirt steak served up rare
monastic taste runs to gruel
cosmic banquet spread
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skirt the rule of church
forest for monastery
gratitude for prayer

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