Happy April 17th also known as Haiku Day. Say it in seventeen syllables ya’ll. Special thanks to what remains of the Galleria in White Plains NY for being the unlikely provider of haiku inspiration. #haikuday #haiku #seventeensyllables #whiteplainsgalleria #whiteplains #galleria
Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! I have taken the occasion as an excuse to do some rereading of her work and am enjoying her sharp wit, sense of humor, fully drawn characters and that she was an outstanding wordsmith. Class warfare, miscommunications between women and men, greed, ambition, virtue, deceit, honesty, dishonesty, and so on, it’s all there in fast moving stories. If the narrative does take a little side trip once in a while it’s for the joy of writing some character into some amusing situation. I’ll take those trips any day. The voice of her narratives offers abundant rewards to the reader and has been for two and a half centuries. Among the differences between her time and ours is the loss of the possibility of living a productive life in a state of genteel poverty. Read on. #janeausten #author #novelest #janeaustenbooks #janeausten250thbirthday
