William Stafford interview: (Reporter )"When did you decide to become a poet?" He responded that the question was put wrongly:"Everyone is born a poet-a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept doing what everyone started out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?" You Gotta Keep Dancin' by Tim Hansel
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Oh Language
Just when I thought things were going to slow down I am teaching 19 hours this week but next week I have a breather and hopefully a house by then. We will see. Tonight I went and ate Kowpiak by myself for dinner(its one of many yummy noodle soups). Anyways it was pretty loud outside and the two girls next to me were talking I couldnt tell if it was Lao or English but I pretended I understood sort of a dangerous fun game where you are listening and counter -answering(is that a word?)It made me think of A Tale of Two Cities. I love that book! At one point two people are arguing with each other in different languages so the whole thing gets pretty misconstrude. I thought hmm...how often that might happen here and what a funny thing language is!
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