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Book Spine Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, Maria Popova at Brain Pickings has been having a little fun creating Book Spine Poetry from her favorite books. Charmed and inspired, I decided to give it a try. Continue Reading
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From an homage in plastic by Mattel (they made her into a Barbie) to a new book by Anne-Marie O’Connor, Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” has been enjoying something of a pop culture renaissance. Continue Reading
Graceful
What does it mean to be graceful? Usually when one thinks of someone who is graceful it is in the context of physicality, like a ballerina or someone who carries herself with particular poise. There is graceful living, which connotes a certain sense of ease and comfort. There is the religious idea of grace, through which one achieves a state of sanctification by adhering to religious practices and beliefs. Then, of course, there is a different kind of grace entirely, one more nebulous and abstract, that has to do with acting with a sense of thoughtfulness. Continue Reading
Reading Goethe
I love reading poetry and it’s been a while since I’ve found something to engage my interest on that front. A website I read sometimes quotes the poetry of Goethe on occasion and, although I know him more as a philosopher than as a poet, I was inspired to buy a book of his poetic works today.
Goethe’s poetry was essentially autobiographical. One of his poems, “The Diary,” was suppressed for more than a century for its eroticism. Well, of course, the thing we want to read first and most is that which has the excitement of the forbidden! So I started there. You should read it for yourself, but here are the final lines:
This life’s a crazy journey, and our heart
May stumble, but two mighty powers, we’ll find,
Can move the world and help us as we go:
To Duty much, to Love far more we owe.
How lovely!
Adventures in Deviant Journalism
For anyone who has known me long enough, or read this, or noticed the items that I tend to “like” on Facebook, or that he has his own tag in my cloud, then you get that I have a serious crush – intellectual and otherwise – on San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford. Understandably then, I am excited that his first, self-published book The Daring Spectacle is very nearly ready to land in my hot little hands. Continue Reading
Eat, Pray, Love – The Movie
The inimitable Erin of Elements of Style alerted me to the fact that they have made a movie from Elizabeth Gilbert’s amazing book Eat, Pray, Love Continue Reading
My name is Angela Eloise and I am a freelance writer. I recently moved to Seattle because I wanted a better home base to support my creative goals. And my shaman told me to. Cloud of Chaos was born from my desire to dance with the absurdity of life, to create a space where I could write and share all of the gorgeous, fun, snarky deliciousness I find spinning around me every day. What does a spinning cloud of chaos have to do with writing? Everything, as it turns out.
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