The quote of the week
Listings for writing workshops wherever we hear about them (please tell us)
Other fun stuff and info
As well as Jakes writing.
Close your eyes
and dream again
Hope is brighter there.
Where darkness is
A thing unknown
and heaven is your shroud.
The dreams of little children.
The dreams of ancient men.
The secret dreams of humankind
Play on to empty crowds.
So many dreams that we all dream.
So many hopes and prayers.
So many lost and broken dreams
lie scattered down the past.
So many new and hopeful ones
lie just outside our reach.
Yet with just one hand, another man
helps you to reach your dream.
And as did he you look behind,
to all the broken hearted dreamers.
So you offer out your hand and say,
"Close your eyes and dream again."
-Jacob A. McDonald
Basically, I have been in Cuba since January, so I really don't have any info or news right now.
From the book "Exile"
By R.A. Salvatore
The physical prowess of the body cannot be sperated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three - body, mind, and heart - that we find spirit.
How many tyrants have tried? How many rulers have sought to reduce their subjects to simple, unthinking instruments of profit and gain? They steal the loves, the religions, of their people; they seek to steal the spirit.
Ultimately and inevitably they fail. This I must believe. If the flame of the spirit's candle is extinguished, there is only death, and the tyrant finds no gain in a kingdom littered with corpses.
But it is a resilient thing, this flame of spirit, indomitable and ever striving. In some, at least, it will survive, to the tyrant's demise.
My friend Samuel Diek has a new book out about terrorism and life in Israel. Look for it in stores.
