{"id":1799,"date":"2009-11-04T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:03:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:03:41","slug":"thinking-green-and-windy-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Green and Windy Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 4, 2009
\n<\/strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Horses are I think lucky . . . horses think good easy things, smooth green and windy things, . . . and they have enough grass to trot in forever and wind to throw their manes high to the sky and cool sweet stream water to drink, and clover.
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I am currently reading the sixth selection from The Fiction Fifty<\/a>, the books that are, as Heather Sellers advises, like the one I am writing. It’s Aryn Kyle’s The God of Animals<\/em><\/a>, about a 12-year-old girl who lives on a horse ranch in Colorado with her father and her mother. The mother is a shadowy figure, a woman who fell into a depression when Alice was a baby and who no longer leaves her bedroom. Alice’s adored older sister has recently run off with a cowboy, a classmate has drowned in a canal, and her father, in an effort to make ends meet, is catering to people who have more money than horse sense and who board their pet horses with him and take riding lessons.<\/p>\n

I am working hot on my novel right now. Today a relationship developed between two characters that I had not expected, and I had to get it down on paper. In addition, I have some other concerns that are making it difficult to jump from the head for\u00c2\u00a0fiction (reading and writing) to the head for nonfiction while also staying in the present. To that end,\u00c2\u00a0I’m posting this only as a place holder, something that qualifies as an daily item for NaBloPoMo, and withdrawing to think smooth green and windy things.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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