O, O, O ...
Do you subscribe to the Writer's Almanac daily news? If you don't, I really recommend it. There's a link here. Most days there is something amazing that sets you thinking, or that chimes in with a piece of work you're developing. Today, the post about Marilyn Monroe singing 'Happy Birthday Mr President ...' nearly fifty years ago caught my eye. Monroe's quoted as saying:
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
Maybe there's something about the 'O' birthdays that makes you reflective. With one fast approaching in August, I'm certainly looking back - and forward, to try and make sense of a few things. I'm determined that 'better things can fall together ...' and I thought it might be interesting once the blog tour is over to do forty posts for forty years, 1971 til now. What do you think? It could be an interesting way to mine our past for our writing, and it might throw up some interesting memories of each year as writing prompts for you all.
Do you subscribe to the Writer's Almanac daily news? If you don't, I really recommend it. There's a link here. Most days there is something amazing that sets you thinking, or that chimes in with a piece of work you're developing. Today, the post about Marilyn Monroe singing 'Happy Birthday Mr President ...' nearly fifty years ago caught my eye. Monroe's quoted as saying:
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
Maybe there's something about the 'O' birthdays that makes you reflective. With one fast approaching in August, I'm certainly looking back - and forward, to try and make sense of a few things. I'm determined that 'better things can fall together ...' and I thought it might be interesting once the blog tour is over to do forty posts for forty years, 1971 til now. What do you think? It could be an interesting way to mine our past for our writing, and it might throw up some interesting memories of each year as writing prompts for you all.
Today on our blog tour we are off to Toronto, to Reading for the Joy of It - a great blog that sets out to inspire schoolkids to read, something that is close to my heart. Janet has written a great, thoughtful review of The Beauty Chorus, and I hope it sparks an interest in her students. When you think just how young these people were, they were not much older than schoolkids - Magee, whose incredible poem 'High Flight' is the epigraph to the story was killed in combat aged 19. Only nineteen. It blows your mind. Enjoy.
