Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Of Books, Tension, and The Mind on the Page…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy‘s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing .
As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained.
Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way.
The story moves with a nice speed for an opening.
I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel of a novel–to settling into bed, Read the rest of this entry…
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Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy‘s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing .
As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained.
Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way.
The story moves with a nice speed for an opening.
I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel of a novel–to settling into bed, Read the rest of this entry…
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From: http://ping.fm/YTghJ
Of Books, Tension, and The Mind on the Page…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy‘s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing .
As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained.
Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way.
The story moves with a nice speed for an opening.
I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel of a novel–to settling into bed, Read the rest of this entry…
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Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy‘s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing .
As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained.
Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way.
The story moves with a nice speed for an opening.
I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel of a novel–to settling into bed, Read the rest of this entry…
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Tags: actions, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy, books, characters, climax, denouement, emotion, fiction, heart, melodrama, mind, mind on the page, motive, movies, novel, protagonist, relationships, story, supporting cast, television dramas, tension
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Of Arrows, Psyche, and Moments of Empathy, Grace and Redemption…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
empathy by PoetArtbyErin
empathy, a photo by PoetArtbyErin on Flickr.
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast.
Eros‘s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her jealousy of the beautiful, young Psyche.
And yet something about Psyche and/or her beauty evoked sorrow in Eros.
A silent knowing moved between them even with Psyche asleep and her eyes closed.
Perhaps he saw himself, weak and driven at the merciless hand of his mother, Aphrodite’s less than virtuous and ethical desires.
Though Eros is careful and quiet, Read the rest of this entry…
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empathy by PoetArtbyErin
empathy, a photo by PoetArtbyErin on Flickr.
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast.
Eros‘s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her jealousy of the beautiful, young Psyche.
And yet something about Psyche and/or her beauty evoked sorrow in Eros.
A silent knowing moved between them even with Psyche asleep and her eyes closed.
Perhaps he saw himself, weak and driven at the merciless hand of his mother, Aphrodite’s less than virtuous and ethical desires.
Though Eros is careful and quiet, Read the rest of this entry…
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From: http://ping.fm/iwWsh
Of Arrows, Psyche, and Moments of Empathy, Grace and Redemption…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
empathy by PoetArtbyErin
empathy, a photo by PoetArtbyErin on Flickr.
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast.
Eros‘s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her jealousy of the beautiful, young Psyche.
And yet something about Psyche and/or her beauty evoked sorrow in Eros.
A silent knowing moved between them even with Psyche asleep and her eyes closed.
Perhaps he saw himself, weak and driven at the merciless hand of his mother, Aphrodite’s less than virtuous and ethical desires.
Though Eros is careful and quiet, Read the rest of this entry…
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empathy by PoetArtbyErin
empathy, a photo by PoetArtbyErin on Flickr.
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast.
Eros‘s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her jealousy of the beautiful, young Psyche.
And yet something about Psyche and/or her beauty evoked sorrow in Eros.
A silent knowing moved between them even with Psyche asleep and her eyes closed.
Perhaps he saw himself, weak and driven at the merciless hand of his mother, Aphrodite’s less than virtuous and ethical desires.
Though Eros is careful and quiet, Read the rest of this entry…
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Of Knots, Persephone and Releasing the Seeds of Our Pomegranate…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
Pomegranate by Swedish Goose
Pomegranate, a photo by Swedish Goose on Flickr.
“When peeling the pomegranate the goal is to release the seeds and discard the membrane surrounding the seeds“. How Do I Peel A Pomegranate by Ann Johnson
Human relationships present a challenge much like peeling a pomegranate, or perhaps at time, like unraveling a knot that has formed in the chain of a necklace, a ball of yarn or a length of thread.
In each case involving either the pomegranate and or the necklace, thread or yarn, efforts to release or dispel the knot require that we sit down and untie or as we like to say, unravel the knot.
We must bring our fingers or a sharp object into the center of the tension and pull apart the threads separate them from around each other. Read the rest of this entry…
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From: http://ping.fm/YFWkD
Pomegranate by Swedish Goose
Pomegranate, a photo by Swedish Goose on Flickr.
“When peeling the pomegranate the goal is to release the seeds and discard the membrane surrounding the seeds“. How Do I Peel A Pomegranate by Ann Johnson
Human relationships present a challenge much like peeling a pomegranate, or perhaps at time, like unraveling a knot that has formed in the chain of a necklace, a ball of yarn or a length of thread.
In each case involving either the pomegranate and or the necklace, thread or yarn, efforts to release or dispel the knot require that we sit down and untie or as we like to say, unravel the knot.
We must bring our fingers or a sharp object into the center of the tension and pull apart the threads separate them from around each other. Read the rest of this entry…
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Of Knots, Persephone and Releasing the Seeds of Our Pomegranate…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Relationships
“When peeling the pomegranate the goal is to release the seeds and discard the membrane surrounding the seeds“. How Do I Peel A Pomegranate by Ann Johnson
Human relationships present a challenge much like peeling a pomegranate, or perhaps at time, like unraveling a knot that has formed in the chain of a necklace, a ball of yarn or a length of thread.
In each case involving either the pomegranate and or the necklace, thread or yarn, efforts to release or dispel the knot require that we sit down and untie or as we like to say, unravel the knot.
We must bring our fingers or a sharp object into the center of the tension and pull apart the threads separate them from around each other. Read the rest of this entry…
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From: http://ping.fm/cMAXF
“When peeling the pomegranate the goal is to release the seeds and discard the membrane surrounding the seeds“. How Do I Peel A Pomegranate by Ann Johnson
Human relationships present a challenge much like peeling a pomegranate, or perhaps at time, like unraveling a knot that has formed in the chain of a necklace, a ball of yarn or a length of thread.
In each case involving either the pomegranate and or the necklace, thread or yarn, efforts to release or dispel the knot require that we sit down and untie or as we like to say, unravel the knot.
We must bring our fingers or a sharp object into the center of the tension and pull apart the threads separate them from around each other. Read the rest of this entry…
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Tags: Demeter, emotions, family, Hades, Hermes, human relationships, knots, Persephone, Pluto, pomegranate, pomegranate seeds, relationships, seeds, Zeus
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