New Year, New News
Hello, everyone! The above is one of my favorite Rilke quotes, and has actually inspired more than a couple poems. Welcoming a long year, untouched and "full of things that have never been." Things waiting to be imagined, to be made real. (I recommend reading it in full context, in Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet). So! Here we are in the New Year, and after a nice long holiday break, we are back up and running here at Tell Your Children, and ready to keep making wonderful new
Solstice & Light
Happy Solstice, everyone! Here in my 12th floor office in downtown Seattle, it is so dark and dark and dark and rainy. The dark is in my bones this last week, like the wet rain chill that is its constant companion in this region, this time of year. So hard to get out of bed and on a train this morning. So much caffeine needed. Even for a night owl, even for someone who has never gone to bed early, even as a kid, “in case I might miss something,” the long hours of darkness wea
