The Biography
Today, February 8 completes three years on this blog. It has had its busy and its slack times, but I’ve enjoyed it all.
I began this blog to publicize my biography of John Emerson Roberts. This was one piece of an effort which involved a variety of Linked In Groups and even Linked In Ads, as well as connecting with other bloggers.
I named this blog “Freethought and Metaphor” in part because I hoped that I would in
My new poetry collection
future have poetry books to advertise – and now I have one. I realized as soon as I came up with the title that these are indeed two sides of my mind, as my subhead says. My left brain thinks about ideas and my right brain creates poetic material. Sometimes these two sides cooperate, sometimes they wander down different trails. And there are times when my left brain pretends to cooperate but really wants to run the show. Those times do no produce successful poems.
Humans are bilateral, but who really had only two sides? A third place where I put my energy is work on hunger and justice issues. There are disputes about what constitutes justice, but most people agree on what hunger is, even when it is hidden under fancy names like “food insecurity.”
I was delighted to discover Word Soup, an organization which uses poetry to support hungry people by asking for a small donation to their local food bank to accompany submissions. I couldn’t pass up the chance to combine these two usually separate parts of my mind. They accepted two of my poems, which can be found at: http://wordsoup.weebly.com/issue-five-february-2015.html
My father-in-law used to count his age not by years completed, but by the year he was in. He was well into his 99th year when he died. Today is not the end of three years for this blog. It is the beginning of the fourth year. And I plan to keep going, though I have no plan laid out for it.
Please check back to see what I come up with. And check out my books on the Books page.
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