Aunt Walt and Uncle Emily

Random Notes

Congratulations Jonathan!

I am fond of Yaw's directions.

And Jen has a wonderfully intimate take on the ten years before her birth.

One More Reading Possibility

I hope to see some of you at the "honey" reading today at 3:00 in Mann Library. For those of you who miss that, or are just looking for more reading possibilities, check this out:

West End Reading Series
Saturday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m.
LOST DOG LOUNGE

Poets Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Deborah Richards, and Kathy Lou Schultz
will read from their work.

Mariana Ruiz Firmat is the author of Another Strange Island (Open 24
Hours Press). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Deborah Richards is a Black Londoner currently living in
Philadelphia. Her poems have been published in Chain, XCP, Nocturnes,
Callaloo, and on-line in HOW2. She has 3 chapbooks, Hide me From the
Day with artist Ariana Krantzite, Cut and Shoot with Cathleen Miller,
and parable, which was published by Leroy Press. Her first collection
of poems, Last One Out, was published by subpress in 2003.

After nearly a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kathy Lou
Schultz moved to Philadelphia in 2000 to do doctoral work at the
University of
Pennsylvania. She is the author of Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press,
2002), Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999), and Re dress (San Francisco
State
University, 1994) winner of the Michael Rubin Award. Recent work is
forthcoming in Fence, Hambone, and anthologies from Wesleyan
University
Press and Coach House Press.


The West End Reading Series is made possible in part with public
funds from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County / NYS
Council on the Arts Decentralization program and the Constance
Saltonstall Foundation.

For more information, please visit www.slyfox.org

The Lost Dog Lounge is located above the Lost Dog Cafe on Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, right across from the Commons.

Feeling much healthier today and looking forward to our make-up class, which I will remind you happens in the A.D. White House, Room 109, tomorrow at 10:10 AM.

Nearly making up for the missed classes this week are your blog entries. Here are some quotes at random:

"Sometimes a few of the older kids would get out their chalk and write along the sidewalks in pastel green, pale pink, "Milica voli Dejan" or some version of so-and-so loves so-and-so. I always got really upset because I couldn't read and therefore couldn't find out if anybody loved me."

"I think that this fear of taking the plunge stems not only from the anxiety of exposure but also and perhaps more importantly from a fear that words won’t do justice to the story, that something will be lost in translation from experience, emotions and impressions into words."

"Serious in that Hef is dying, but carnal and lively."

"Gaps of time and emotion must be left out as a self preservation mechanism."

"I am a very skeptical person. I take everything I see and hear with a grain of salt. Well, not hot chocolate but everything else is washed down with a grain of salt."

"i was the little girl who couldnt wait to grow up and wear make up. i was the girl who wished herself skinny. and my friends were too."

"Fence is a wonderful tour of the things you’d always hoped to find on the other side of the ten-foot pickets. It’s got borders and boundaries that don’t need to be transgressed because within them, there’s already a wild outgrowth of creativity."

"I've realized that I need to trust my instincts to discover what it truly is I believe, and allow those I trust to guide me when I need them. Constantly asking others for the "answer" can just hide the truth even more."

"Truth is like technology."