Catching Days
is a blog about writing, reading, and life--how they meld, clash, and astonish. It's a net for catching days.How this site works:
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"The Empty Armchair" in Contrary MagazineOne of my essays …
"Childhood" at Numéro CinqOne of my reviews …
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Category Archives: art
outside my window-october 28
Matisse wrote, “To paint an autumn landscape I will not try to remember what colors suit this season, I will be inspired only by the sensation that the season arouses in me: the icy purity of the sour blue sky … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, Columbus GA, fall, journals, leaves
Tagged Journal Champetre D'Edith Holden, Matisse on Art
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new york march 2011
In New York last weekend, Cal and I saw Memphis, the 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical. It was GREAT! Saturday, we ate breakfast outside (despite the cold weather) at Sarabeth’s on the park. At The Museum of Modern Art, … Continue reading
Posted in art, catching moments, journeys, obsession, place
Tagged Breakfast at Tiffany's
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it’s been another year
It’s been another year and I missed it–completely never even thought about it until Friday night when I was visiting another blog, reading a post about how that week was that blog’s two-year anniversary–still not thinking about it–and then at the … Continue reading
Posted in accumulation, art, catching moments, journeys, life, perspective, the day, time, words, writing
Tagged Without End
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october
In The Maytrees, Annie Dillard wrote, She herself hoped to paint, soberly, when she got old. In 2009, a week before I headed to Provincetown, I read in The Provincetown Banner that, at the age of 64, Annie Dillard was … Continue reading
one thing leads to another
Which leads to another…. For the last post, I was looking for a quote by Henri Matisse that I never found by the way about not needing to show the whole shape of something in order for the viewer to … Continue reading
the odd shapes of life
“Obituaries, I believe, are really less about death than the odd shapes life takes, the patterns that death allows us to see.” The Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo But it’s not death that allows us to see the patterns. Death … Continue reading
“It’s hard to tell somebody what you mean to say. And that’s an idea that I’m obsessed with. It’s why I write. It’s why everybody writes.”
--Jonathan Safran Foer
