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Arthur C. Clarke, Betty Smith, Charles Dickens, Christmas memories, Cleveland Amory, Gary Fernandez, Happiness, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, John Cheever, Peter Matthiessen, writing
We writers are a curious bunch. Curious about the world. Curious about other people. Curious to hear their stories. Right this very minute, I’m curious about Gary Fernández. WordPress commissions an illustration to give away as desktop wallpaper during the holidays. This year, Spanish artist Gary Fernández created wintry forest scenes filled with curious characters. I’m posting three of his amazing works and then I’m off to discover his story.
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I’ve never heard a boring story or met a boring person. When police question neighbors after a burglary occurs, often the reply is he’s always been quiet, comes and goes at the same time every day, hardly see the guy. Sounds like he was a boring person but clearly there is something to discover, a story to uncover.
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I’m loving the Beach Street stories. Just like Owen Canfield, who writes a local newspaper column, Mary opens with a bike hike or a falling tree, Velveeta cheese or potato pancakes – trivial items perhaps, but not trivial topics. Everything has meaning, doesn’t it?
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Every Christmas I reread stories, poems and essays in my New Christmas Treasury. (It was new in 1982.) It’s one plum pudding of a book. 500 pages of literary love. P.D James, Cleveland Amory, M.F.K.Fisher, Peter Matthiessen, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Arthur C. Clarke, e e cummings, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Smith, James Thurber, E.B.White, John Milton, Charles Dickens - to name a few– release small miracles on every page of this treasure. It’s Happiness for a crystal-cold night. Serve with a hearty Cab, Ella and Louis.
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Toni
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Happiness Song #16 Courtesy of Ella and Louis
Music:A or A+
Art: Maybe a C
Will be sending an e-mail next week to either W*4 or Toni on Eye-tie music that I expect is unknown to most of you.
In the meantime if you were nice in a naughty way… or is it naughty in a nice way hey maybe SC will stop.
And to all a good night.
We’ll be waiting. In the meantime we’re busy. SC delivered Happiness.
( I like W*4 – that’s Four Star Women, right?)
Buon Natale, hq and pd