Author: Catherine

Struck this week by the word “formula” when I was expecting “form.” Formula: More attractive than form, probably because it’s more dynamic, operational.

Collecting names of mythological female collectives: qaasgha jiina His wife then joined him in the sea, where she gave birth to all the headwater women – those quintessential creatures known in Haida as qaasgha...

Understanding is something humans do for fun… ~Robert Bringhurst, “Wild Language,” in The Tree of Meaning That explains a lot.

I liked this post on Makura No Soshi: What interests me now is not poetry, but living some version of the good life. The Good Life Center is in Harborside, Maine. Their website is...

Jeannette Winterson, “Shafts of Sunlight” …Eliot saying, as he does in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, that “poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...