MEMBER BLOG TAG: arts
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:54PM | | | | Adventure in New York | Tags: PEN, Peckinpah, Warner Brothers, Seven Arts, World Voices
| | | | Maggie Cousins was born in Munday, Texas, population 400, but went to New York where she became managing editor of McCall’s, then senior editor at Doubleday.
When she retired she returned to Texas. When she was well into her 80s I heard Maggie tell some young children that they should pursue adventure. “When I came to San Antonio, I decided to have an adventure every day,” she said. “If I lived in Munday, I’d manage to have an adventure every day.”
And she did. You don’t have to be young, or beautiful, or travel to Morocco to have an adventure. You don’t even have to have a book. All you need is an adventurous mind. The best adventures are in the mind. No one can take... | | | | | | | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 2:12PM | | | | A Prayer for Renewal | Tags: sparrow, hands, hearts, voices, fist, lies
| | | | You who made us
do not grow tired of telling us who we are.
You who made our hearts, and taught us how to love
tell us why love hurts, why we cherish folly,
why our hearts beat out of tune with you.
You who gave us a mind to know the stars and the imagination to trace the wind
tell us why they devise mischief and live on the street of vanity.
You who gave us eyes to see Your name in every sparrow’s wing
tell us how to see through tears, through pain
through easy satisfaction.
You who gave us hands to build, to touch, to heal
tell us why when they are empty they make a fist.
You who gave us a voice to sing, to praise with loving words
tell us why we... | | | | | | | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:15AM | | | | Ghana Journal: Aspects of Ghana | Tags: laban carrick hill, africa, ghana, arts
| | | Ghana Journal
Aspects of Life In Ghana: Observations
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I was assigned an office in the English Department the first day I arrived at the University of Cape Coast. They did not have a key for me so I couldn’t go into the office. After a couple of days, someone decided that I could borrow the key that the department office had as long as I returned it. I was promised that I would receive a key of my own any... | | | | | |
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