by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 19, 2015 | 1 true thing |
In Falling Through Space, Ellen Gilchrist wrote, We should get up one morning and take all our books and put them in a pile in the middle of the floor and start playing with them. I love playing with books–sitting on the floor in a library, in a bookstore, or in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 18, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I have to think before I know which is my left or which is my right. There’s always a split second pause–where I connect the word right to my right arm–before I know which is which. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 17, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m not an emotional person, although I often get choked up watching commercials. Or movies. Or episodes of Parenthood. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 16, 2015 | 1 true thing, accumulation |
In direct contradiction with my tendency to save stuff, and/or because of it, I love getting rid of things and fantasize about a life with only the minimum. I imagine what the minimum would look like–seven of everything clothes-wise, ten books, one set of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Yesterday was a travel day, and today I’m back home. When I first sat down at my desk, my mind felt too cluttered to start writing this… Having been gone a week, I felt the need to attend to small details (mail, a list for tomorrow and another for the week...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 14, 2015 | 1 true thing |
My father always told me I could do anything I set my mind to. And I believed him. Small case in point. As a freshman in college I got a job as a waitress, something I’d never done before. That first day on the job, a Sunday, I was the only waitress at the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 13, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
For me, it’s not egrets or bears or violets or moss. It’s the water. Any water–a lake, a fountain, the rain. Seeing it and hearing it. First choice used to be the ocean–the continuous roar with periodic crashings. But then I discovered the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 12, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Snow fills me with wonder. It allows me to look at the world as I did when I was a child. Just look. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Everything that we see in our daily life is more or less distorted by acquired habits… the artist…has to look at life...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 11, 2015 | 1 true thing |
List-maker. to do grocery today calls packing projects books I’ve read shakespeare to watch to read sometime songs tomorrow trips to fix to write ~ 365 true things about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 10, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m so unbelievably happy that Joni Mitchell at age 71, which is unbelievable, looks exactly as I would have imagined she would look if I could have imagined it. Please go look at these 5 photos. This, folks, is 71. Yes, I’m aware it’s a magazine...
