How to Be Alone

Here is the video Sara recommended.  It's beautiful.  I love how the pace at the end of the poem picks up with internal rhyme.  The music and the graphics add a lot, and for me, add quite a bit of meaning and sentiment I might otherwise not have experienced.  There were moments during this I felt sad for lacking time to be alone, remembering my collegiate days when I did things by myself all of the time.  Great addition to the blog, Sara.  Word.

Things from others.

http://writingsfromwonderland.blogspot.com/p/author.html

"Thoughts flitted about in Anthony’s head like sparrows, their wing-beats mimicking his pulse. A window in his eyes swung open, closed, open, closed, each tenebrous creak wracking his form. His face had crinkled into a blank white sheet. So Peter was not expecting an answer, but it came, whipping out through the rain when nobody was looking.

“I never knew my mother,” Anthony said. “But in many ways, my sister was a mother to me.”
“What was she like?”

“She had lovely hair. It was the colour of canaries, and it spun round her head whenever she laughed.”

“Your sister had birds for hair?” Peter asked, his mouth wide open.

A sad smile glinted at a corner of Anthony’s lip. “She would have loved wings.”

^^This girl is amazing.

Plus a poem/video about how to be alone and handle the silence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

Silence

We chose to write about the theme of silence this month, and will sift through some literature to find connections to this theme.  Share your work here, and anything else that's related.  Also, we'll be discussing the novel, Speak, later this month.  Word.