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Literature/Musings/Poetry/Writing

I Opened Your Book

Posted on May 14, 2019 / 0 Comment

I opened your book and what did I read? Whispers of heavenly death murmur’d I hear Only an hour before I drowned a mortally wounded fledgling, too young t...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (4)

Posted on December 26, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (3)

Posted on August 26, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (2)

Posted on August 23, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (1)

Posted on August 22, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Of Mice and Men
Literature/Quotes

Quote From Of Mice and Men

Posted on November 9, 2014 / 1 Comment

I recently read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I rather enjoyed this short novel about two farm hands—Lennie, a huge overgrown bear of a man with the brain ...

Dr. Fu-Manchu
Literature/Quotes

Quotes from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

Posted on July 12, 2014 / 0 Comment

So, I recently finished reading The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer. I rather enjoyed this book. It was well written, and the character of Dr. Fu-Manchu i...

James Bond
Literature/Quotes

Quotes from Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Posted on July 5, 2014 / 0 Comment

I just finished reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. It is the first of the James Bond books that he wrote, although the movie chronology is quite a bit differ...

history
History/Quotes

Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)

Posted on June 1, 2014 / 0 Comment

This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...

history
History/Quotes

Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)

Posted on May 17, 2014 / 0 Comment

Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...

Brad Severance
Brad Severance

I'm a photographer, poet, artist, Francophile, and avid reader.

Current Projects

2022 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2022 Photo Journey

A French Word a Day for 100 Days

To practice and improve my French, I’m picking a word a day and writing three sentences containing that word.
Check it out here: A French Word a Day for 100 Days

Stuff I’m Reading Now

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” —Joseph Addison
Don’t get flabby! Read everyday. See what I’ve read in 2021 here.

Upstream by Mary Oliver
Essays by one of the most popular poets of the modern era.

The Fall by Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus 
A confession for the modern man.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The third novel of the immortal series that everyone has read except me.

Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy
Inspired love poems to God.

Past Projects

The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

Each week, my painter, Addie, and I will choose a theme upon which to write and paint. We have many exciting topics to explore, and we are excited to share our work.
Check it out here: The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

2021 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2021 Photo Journey

The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

Each day, for 30 days, my painter, Addie, and I selected a poem (from the public domain). I wrote a poem and she painted a painting inspired by that poem. The result was an outpouring of creative energy.
Check it out here: The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

2020 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for an entire year.
Check it out here: 2020 Photo Journey

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