Writing Cabin: I Give Myself a Birthday Gift

Thursday, December 1, 2011

I Give Myself a Birthday Gift

Posted by John at 3:33 PM

3 comments:

N!LoC said...: the iphone is the best thing ever...; December 2, 2011 at 2:28 AM
Ur-spo said...: Belated happy birthday - may this next year be your best one yet so far.; December 3, 2011 at 11:22 PM
John said...: Thank you!; December 4, 2011 at 8:21 AM

Whose writing cabin is that pictured in the heading?

In the 1960s American naturalist Edwin Way Teale had this cabin built by a pond on his 200-year-old farm near Hampton, CT. For an account of the first visit that I paid to Trail Wood, read here.

I made a second visit in August 2010 and a third in October 2012 and a fourth in December 2013 and a fifth in July 2016.

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The Day Deborah Kerr Died

Coming down for breakfast one work day in October 2007, I was greeted with the news that Deborah Kerr had died. I got a bowl for my cereal and a knife to trim the strawberries. I was reminded what had happened the day Judy Garland died. Could there be another kind of Stonewall on the way, my mind wondered. It was already a week when things were changing for me on a number of fronts...

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Links to Visit

Claudecf's Flickriver
Consider the Lilies
La Vie Graphite
Little Compton Mornings
Mind the Bear
Spo-Reflections
such stuff

what I'm reading these days

"La Philosophie en Hiver" by Ricardo Menendez Salmon

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"Saints for All Occasions" by J. Courtney Sullivan

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"Mrs. Osmond" by John Banville

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"The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott

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"La dame blanche" by Christian Bobin

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"Truffaut" by Antoine de Baeque and Serge Toubiana

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"The Rector's Daughter" by F.M. Mayor

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"The End of Eddy" by Edouard Louis

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"A Manuscript of Ashes" by Antonio Munoz Molina

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"The South" by Colm Toibin

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"Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner

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"Alberto's Lost Birthday" by Diana Rosie

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"Noonday" by Pat Barker

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"The Red Notebook" by Antoine Laurain

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"Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A. Scott Berg

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"Aeneid Book VI" translated by Seamus Heaney

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"The Loney" by Andrew Michael Hurley

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'Paris Nocturne" by Patrick Modiano

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"The Signature of All Things" by Elizabeth Gilbert

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"The Wild Places" by Robert Macfarlane

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"Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz and How It Transformed The New York Times"

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"The Mask Carver's Son" by Alyson Richman

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"The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake

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"The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot" by Robert MacFarlane

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"The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative" by Vivian Gornick

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"A Fatal Grace" by Louise Penny

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"H Is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald

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"White Fawn" by Olive Higgins Prouty

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"Now, Voyager" by Olive Higgins Prouty

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"The Château" by William Maxwell

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"The People in the Photo" by Hélène Gestern

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"After Rain" by William Trevor

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"The Inn at the Edge of the World" by Alice Thomas Ellis

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"Mission to Paris" by Alan Furst

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"The Paying Guests" by Sarah Waters

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"Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat" by Grete Weil

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"Know the Night: A Memoir" by Maria Mutch

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"Thirteen Moons" by Charles Frazier

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"The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak

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"The Light of Western Stars" by Zane Grey

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"The Prone Gunman" by Jean-Patrick Manchette

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"The Paris Architect" by Charles Belfoure

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"The Family" by David Plante

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"An Orkney Tapestry" by George Mackay Brown

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"Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier

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"George Mackay Brown: The Life" by Maggie Fergusson

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"Stoner" by John Williams

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"My Life in Middlemarch" by Rebecca Mead

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"The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl

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"As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" by Laurie Lee

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"C.S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet" by Alister McGrath

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"The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout

"Look Homeward, Angel' by Thomas Wolfe

"The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson

"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters

"The Night Watch" by Sarah Waters

"Light, Coming Back" by Ann Wadsworth

"Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God" by David McCasland

"Toby's Room" by Pat Barker

"The Dead of Mametz" by Jonathan Hicks

"Pure" by Andrew Miller

"Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont" by Elizabeth Taylor

...the taste of change, the challenge to hope, the invitation to new confidence...

"The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life."

"Love after Love" by Derek Walcott

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"Newton and Polly: A Novel of Amazing Grace" by Jody Hedlund

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"The Sudden Guest" by Christopher LaFarge