Comments on: Language is Our Landscape

By: petit

petit — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:15:20 +0000

you have made this blogger happy and emotionally touched by your comparison of flower designing with writing. true enough, sometimes we just have to follow our hearts and hear our voices.
thank you for this wonderful piece of writing, jan made a link on this.

By: petit

petit — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:15:00 +0000

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:01:36 +0000

Marc: True that. I never saw flowers as art while I was immersed in them. Only after moving on to words can I see my short sightedness.

GreenJello: EXACTLY! Writing has led me to an enhanced appreciation of what I used to do. I didn’t realize that I was missing the stoking of the creative side of my brain until I started writing last year. It’s wonderful to feed what’s inside us.

Janice: Janice, here is your official invitation to get carried away. I would expect nothing less.

Terry Heath: I totally agree. I read Strunk and White because I had to, but Stephen King because I wanted to. Nuff said.

Patricia: My pleasure. I hope the cuppa was good.

Randi: Exactly. It’s like when you play Tetris for a long time and then start seeing blocks floating through the air. With flowers its the constant combination of colors With writing its the formation of prose forever swirling in my head. At least my mind is in motion.

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:01:00 +0000

Marc: True that. I never saw flowers as art while I was immersed in them. Only after moving on to words can I see my short sightedness.

Janice: Janice, here is your official invitation to get carried away. I would expect nothing less.

Terry Heath: I totally agree. I read Strunk and White because I had to, but Stephen King because I wanted to. Nuff said.

Patricia: My pleasure. I hope the cuppa was good.

By: Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul

Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:07:42 +0000

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By: Randi

Randi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:41:05 +0000

I loved how you compared writing to flower artistry. I have often made the same comparison in my mind, but with scrapbooking and writing. I used to have subscriptions to three different scrapbooking magazines until I realized that every time I made a layout, I would throw out the template suggestions and wing it! Instead of following the rules of graphics, I would take paper or photo in hand then arrange and re-arrange with embellishments and journaling until I had that moment where I looked at it and said, “It is finished.”

Beautiful photo.

By: Randi

Randi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Beautiful photo.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:41:08 +0000

I love flowers and I love writing….just came to celebrate these two loves in my life and have a cuppa!

Thank you

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:41:00 +0000

I love flowers and I love writing….just came to celebrate these two loves in my life and have a cuppa!

Thank you

By: Terry Heath

Terry Heath — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:15:37 +0000

Of course, Strunk and White might disagree . . .

I sort of side with Stephen King on this one, that a decent writer can learn to be a good writer with a little focused study.

Study isn’t about closing doors on your creativity, it’s about opening them.