Write Your Life!: Rictameter of the Day: Questions

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Rictameter of the Day: Questions

Questions

Questions.

Yes, we all have

Questions, big and small and

Universal, easy or not

Possible to answer. We need questions,

Curiosity to find those

Elusive answers. We

Survive through our

Questions.

2 comments:

Lydia said...: This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by Rainier Rilke:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”; June 12, 2008 at 3:26 AM
seniorwriter said...: I love the quote!; June 12, 2008 at 6:06 AM

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I live on the thirty-fifth floor of a senior highrise on Chicago's Gold Coast. I retired in 1999 after 40 years in the English Department of Wilbur Wright College, on Chicago's Northwest Side, where I was department chair for 7 years and Wright's Distinguished Service Professor for 1995-96.

In late 2005, I found myself retired, widowed, 73, and depressed, so I set out to find contentment through reflection and writing. My first published book, Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor (2006), is a series of personal essays recounting that quest and some of the experiences that came before it. My second is Seniorwriting: A Brief Guide for Seniors Who Want to Write (2007). My third is poetry, Elder Expectations: My Life in Rictameters (2008). My writing also includes a column for eGenerations.com.

I advocate writing for everyone, and hope to encourage my fellow senior citizens to write. I am a member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association, The Story Circle Network, The Authors Marketing Group, and the Chicago Writers Associaion and a volunteer at the Chicago Cultural Center. Please comment on my posts!

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