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Drawing for the Day and Amy Tan: For George
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan p. 54-55 I remembered that Pete had once suggested that I apply my linguistics knowledge toward working with disabled children. He had said this a month or so before he died. He himself had intended to make computerised equipment for people with disabilities. At the time, his suggestion [...]
Drawing for the Day…and Pullman
The drawing found its way on to the page whilst listening to Philip Pullman read fairytales from his retelling of the Grimm tales. He wore shoes with red shoelaces. “Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.” “As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young [...]
Drawing for the Day and The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Page 535 He was tall in bed and I could see the silver through his eyelids. His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do – the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, ‘I know who you are and I am [...]
Drawing for the Day and Maori proverb. For Keri.
Hutia te rito o te harakeke, If you pluck out the centre shoot of the flax, Kei whea te korimako e koo? Where will the bellbird sing? Ka rere ki uta, ka rere ki tai. It will fly inland, it will fly seawards. Kii mai koe ki au, If you ask me, he aha te mea [...]
Drawing for the Day and All That I Am
All That I Am by Anna Funder p.176 While Dora and I drafted I walked the room, or the garden if the day was bright, and she sat over her writing pad, flipping the pages around their coil of wire. People often have to be alone to think or to write, but being with Dora [...]
Drawing for the Day and All That I Am
All That I Am by Anna Funder p.257 A traffic policeman stood on a podium in the road, arms moving from the elbows like a puppet. A scarlet bus careened into the kerb, disgorging its passengers, all of them with somewhere to go. They filed past a street-sweeper in a soft cap with a long-handled [...]
Drawing for the Day and All That I Am
All That I Am by AnnaFunder p.96 After he leaves, the happiness of his company persists in the room. I lay my head over the chair back and close my eyes again. I am slouching, head back on the leather car seat. Dora and I are in a cathedral of trees; from each side [...]
Drawing for the Day and All That I Am
All That I Am by Anna Funder p.7 And he had seen inside my mind; he is preparing to tell me the shape and weight and creeping betrayals of it. Last week they loaded me into the MRI machine, horizontal in one of those verdammten gowns that do not close at the back: designed to [...]
Drawing for the Day and Maurice Sendak
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: [...]
Drawing for the Day and Jonah Lehrer
“Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we’ve hit the wall. We have no idea what to do next. When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out [...]
