Fine in 2009!
Hey, anyone who is reading,
2009. Well, I love New Years. I always have hope at the beginning of the year, which quickly diminishes as the months wear onto into the disappointing realities of mundanity, and then quickly return to another New Years day where somehow I am tricked again into a blind optimism. But I think it is necessary and should be embraced every year and a new start. It's also great at New Year to sit back and see the good things that happened in the past year.
For me, this past year has been quite traumatic. So I think this year ahead can only be better, hey? My friend at work was hassling me to write another post, and I have been wanting to do it for ages, but I am so busy.
Well this year, promises a new year of university, changing subjects and maybe courses and in the middle of all this what does one do with all the gloomy economic news?
Well my mind goes back to Bob Dylan - (where it often goes, sadly) and how in the sixties when everyone thought Cuba was going to bomb the USA, (one particular night everyone was bracing for Nuclear War) where was Bob Dylan? He was playing his guitar in a little bar in New York.
Everyone thought the world was going to end and Bob did too, but he was playing his music, performing and creating. I think of the orchestra who apparently played while the Titanic sunk - not sure if that is legend but the idea is amazing anyway. Some people were made to create and should this stop when the world is ending or perceived to be, or do we need art even more then? Amidst all the gloom we need to see a movie, watch a play, read a book, sing a song to get some relief. I think I want to be playing in the orchestra while the ship is sinking, (although dying a horrible death doesn't fun).
So contrary to advice from people around me I am going to continue to travel to Brisbane every week for my post graduate study in Creative Writing. What else can I do? My next post will be about The Sun Also Rises. Wow, what a book!
Amazingly intricate and spine tingingly, complex characters, fabulous Hemingway. A world I was happy to dive into every night. So superbly painted and done with such compassion and insights into the characters. Now I am starting to talk about it already.
I am going now and will be back soon so I can talk about Hemingway. His first novel. Wow.
posted by Suzanne Strong @ 17:40
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I totally get the New Year's Resolution thing, but this year I'm determined to stick to mine. Over Christmas I read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast", about his time as a writer in Paris. He creates such rich characters that you always feel slightly disappointed when the story ends.
Yeah me too.
I read A Moveable Feast about a year ago. I loved it.
I love how Hemingway brings you so close to these people and they are quirky and have major problems but you feel compassion for them.
Definitely like you said at the end of the novel you don't want to say goodbye to the characters always a good sign.
You should read The Sun Also Rises as well. His first novel and it is the same, amazing!
Happy New Year see you on your blog.
su
I see New Year's as a way to reset your goals and I like to look at the big picture at this time of year.
I don't have little resolutions like giving up a bad habit, I like to look at big dreams and goals. And I definitely keep these going throughout the year.
Sometimes the year gets tiresome, but it's a great time to go over the good things that happened in the year.
Great to see you again Skye. One of these days we will have another writers coffee/lunch and I will meet you in person.
:)
I will definitely grab 'The Sun Also Rises'. Beginning a Masters of English this year I'm trying to read everything I can get my hands on. My daughters therapy begins again this week after a blessed month off so it's going to be a busy year.
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