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#Books #ChildrensBooks #OxCartMan
#DonaldHall #BarbaraCook #Farming #Selling #Oxen #Seasons

I sure hope most of us are familiar with this wonderful chidren'sbook. It's quiet, informative and presents the cycle of the seasons in a way children can understand.

These days it also informs kid and adults, probably, of how things once were.

What We Write About When We Write About Grief

Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
—Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Although I can claim no awareness of a comprehensive survey on the topic, it’s been my impression as I reflect on the novels I’ve read that an all-too-common way of portraying grief in fiction is as a trope to depict vulnerability, to suggest the character possesses some profound awareness of loss, sorrow, suffering, and thus the human condition writ large, providing a signal to the reader that your character has some gravitas. This can be done reasonably well, as in the first example below, or it can come across as a contrivance, a shortcut, a gimmick.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/08/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief/

#Process #REALWORLD #death #DeniseMina #DonaldHall

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/07/donald-hall-the-third-thing/

@Wiobyrne

#JaneKenyon (1947 – 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterised as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic #DonaldHall who made her the subject of many of his poems.

Derangedly, I thought I'd try to sketch headshots of each author of a book I finished in 2022. Here's 1-8 (chronologically from when I read them this year). Yeah, the scale's screwy, but at least you don't know what most of 'em look like: #VirginiaWoolf, #DavidThomson, #RamanSehgal, #FordMadoxFord, #GlennKurtz, #ScottMeslow, #ItaloCalvino, and #DonaldHall, for whom I just decided to go with ink. I'll work on the other 49 (!) over the holiday.

#art #amateurartist #book #bookstodon

One of my favorite Donald Hall poems. 'The Things'

#Poetry #DonaldHall