Friday, March 20, 2020

You Moved Your Whole Town

The lines in the photograph below are quoted from the poem "You Moved Your Whole Town" by Paul T. Corrigan. To read that poem, click here.


Wednesday, March 18, 2020

The Color Blue

Here are two quotations about the color blue, one from Scottish novelist and poet George MacDonald (1824-1905) and the other from English essayist, critic and reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900). To read an article about the color blue, click here.

Baby blues
Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
--George MacDonald


March Water


Source of the quotation:
Thoughts from the Mountains
(Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

Monday, March 16, 2020

A Quotation from Cynthia Ozick

Source of the quotation:
Thoughts from the Mountains
(Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

To read an article about American short-story writer, novelist and essayist Cynthia Ozick, click here.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

An Anonymous Bit of Poetry


Source of the quotation: 
Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dakota Haiku

Dakotas believe
we will be known forever
by the tracks we leave.


To read an article about the Dakota people, click here.

(Haiku and photo copyright 2020 Monty Gilmer. All rights reserved.)