Paula Gatwood
@paulagatwood.bsky.social
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and imagination. We are right to be afraid.”
Grace Paley, 1980
Grace Paley, 1980
“…you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”
From “Prophet Song”
by Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize Winner
From “Prophet Song”
by Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize Winner
February 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“…you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”
From “Prophet Song”
by Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize Winner
From “Prophet Song”
by Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize Winner
“A tough mind and a tender heart.”
RIP James Earl Carter
RIP James Earl Carter
January 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“A tough mind and a tender heart.”
RIP James Earl Carter
RIP James Earl Carter
Good morning #5amwritersclub
What will your imagination bring you today?
#writingcommunity
#HappyWordHunt
“When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to understand that all judgment is a confession.” -Nikola Tesla
What will your imagination bring you today?
#writingcommunity
#HappyWordHunt
“When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to understand that all judgment is a confession.” -Nikola Tesla
December 10, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
What will your imagination bring you today?
#writingcommunity
#HappyWordHunt
“When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to understand that all judgment is a confession.” -Nikola Tesla
What will your imagination bring you today?
#writingcommunity
#HappyWordHunt
“When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to understand that all judgment is a confession.” -Nikola Tesla
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Let’s get to work.
#WritingCommunity
#storyteller #word
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars...”
-Salman Rushdie
Let’s get to work.
#WritingCommunity
#storyteller #word
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars...”
-Salman Rushdie
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Let’s get to work.
#WritingCommunity
#storyteller #word
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars...”
-Salman Rushdie
Let’s get to work.
#WritingCommunity
#storyteller #word
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars...”
-Salman Rushdie
Happy Friday to you too, Paula!
Perfect weather for climbing the old oak tree. 😎
Perfect weather for climbing the old oak tree. 😎
November 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Happy Friday to you too, Paula!
Perfect weather for climbing the old oak tree. 😎
Perfect weather for climbing the old oak tree. 😎
5 years ago this month, age 95, Jimmy Carter, fell at home. With 14 stitches and a black eye, he picked up his hammer and tool belt and went to Nashville to build homes.
#JimmyCarter100
#Gravitas
#JimmyCarter100
#Gravitas
October 2, 2024 at 12:41 PM
5 years ago this month, age 95, Jimmy Carter, fell at home. With 14 stitches and a black eye, he picked up his hammer and tool belt and went to Nashville to build homes.
#JimmyCarter100
#Gravitas
#JimmyCarter100
#Gravitas
Everything Is Going To Be All Right
By Derek Mahon
Read by Andrew Scott
#NationalPoetryMonth
#IrishPoets
m.youtube.com/watch?si=auE...
By Derek Mahon
Read by Andrew Scott
#NationalPoetryMonth
#IrishPoets
m.youtube.com/watch?si=auE...
April 16, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Everything Is Going To Be All Right
By Derek Mahon
Read by Andrew Scott
#NationalPoetryMonth
#IrishPoets
m.youtube.com/watch?si=auE...
By Derek Mahon
Read by Andrew Scott
#NationalPoetryMonth
#IrishPoets
m.youtube.com/watch?si=auE...
Good morning ☀️
Each Spring I think March is my favorite month. Along comes April to prove me wrong.
Let’s get to work!
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity #April1st
It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
~Mary Oliver
Each Spring I think March is my favorite month. Along comes April to prove me wrong.
Let’s get to work!
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity #April1st
It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
~Mary Oliver
April 1, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Good morning ☀️
Each Spring I think March is my favorite month. Along comes April to prove me wrong.
Let’s get to work!
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity #April1st
It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
~Mary Oliver
Each Spring I think March is my favorite month. Along comes April to prove me wrong.
Let’s get to work!
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity #April1st
It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
~Mary Oliver
We should be careful
of each other
We should be kind
while there is still time
-Philip Larkin
#ThoughtForTheDay
#Friday #Kindness
of each other
We should be kind
while there is still time
-Philip Larkin
#ThoughtForTheDay
#Friday #Kindness
March 22, 2024 at 11:00 AM
We should be careful
of each other
We should be kind
while there is still time
-Philip Larkin
#ThoughtForTheDay
#Friday #Kindness
of each other
We should be kind
while there is still time
-Philip Larkin
#ThoughtForTheDay
#Friday #Kindness
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Happy word hunt!
#WritingCommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” -Grace Paley
Happy word hunt!
#WritingCommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” -Grace Paley
February 21, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Happy word hunt!
#WritingCommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” -Grace Paley
Happy word hunt!
#WritingCommunity
#WednesdayMotivation
“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” -Grace Paley
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good morning #storytellers
Let’s get to work.
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommmunity #Tuesday #TellYourStory
#authors #booksky
📸 Michelle Cowbourne
visionsofsonerset.co.uk
Good morning #storytellers
Let’s get to work.
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommmunity #Tuesday #TellYourStory
#authors #booksky
📸 Michelle Cowbourne
visionsofsonerset.co.uk
February 20, 2024 at 10:16 AM
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good morning #storytellers
Let’s get to work.
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommmunity #Tuesday #TellYourStory
#authors #booksky
📸 Michelle Cowbourne
visionsofsonerset.co.uk
Good morning #storytellers
Let’s get to work.
#5amwritersclub #WritingCommmunity #Tuesday #TellYourStory
#authors #booksky
📸 Michelle Cowbourne
visionsofsonerset.co.uk
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Let’s get to work.
“Inventing a story is a particular sort of pleasure, but sharing it with others is the best feeling in the world.” ~Graham Norton
#WritingCommunity #writers
#Story #TellYourStory
Let’s get to work.
“Inventing a story is a particular sort of pleasure, but sharing it with others is the best feeling in the world.” ~Graham Norton
#WritingCommunity #writers
#Story #TellYourStory
February 19, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Let’s get to work.
“Inventing a story is a particular sort of pleasure, but sharing it with others is the best feeling in the world.” ~Graham Norton
#WritingCommunity #writers
#Story #TellYourStory
Let’s get to work.
“Inventing a story is a particular sort of pleasure, but sharing it with others is the best feeling in the world.” ~Graham Norton
#WritingCommunity #writers
#Story #TellYourStory
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days,
nor in the first one thousand days,
nor in the life of this administration.
Nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.”
John F. Kennedy
29 May 1917 - 22 November 1963
#JFK60 #JFK #WhatIf
nor in the first one thousand days,
nor in the life of this administration.
Nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.”
John F. Kennedy
29 May 1917 - 22 November 1963
#JFK60 #JFK #WhatIf
November 22, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Happy word hunt.
#WritingCommunity #fridaymorning
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ -
Arthur Schnitzler
Happy word hunt.
#WritingCommunity #fridaymorning
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ -
Arthur Schnitzler
November 17, 2023 at 10:14 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Happy word hunt.
#WritingCommunity #fridaymorning
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ -
Arthur Schnitzler
Happy word hunt.
#WritingCommunity #fridaymorning
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ -
Arthur Schnitzler
Good morning.
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare…
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
~William Wordsworth
#FarmLife #MondayMood
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#NatureCoast
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare…
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
~William Wordsworth
#FarmLife #MondayMood
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#NatureCoast
November 13, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Good morning.
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare…
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
~William Wordsworth
#FarmLife #MondayMood
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#NatureCoast
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare…
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
~William Wordsworth
#FarmLife #MondayMood
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#NatureCoast
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Everybody in?
Let’s get to work.
Down and dirty.
Read ‘em and weep!
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity #noirfilm #backroom #TellYourStory
#skywriters
Everybody in?
Let’s get to work.
Down and dirty.
Read ‘em and weep!
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity #noirfilm #backroom #TellYourStory
#skywriters
October 19, 2023 at 9:38 AM
Good morning #5amwritersclub
Everybody in?
Let’s get to work.
Down and dirty.
Read ‘em and weep!
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity #noirfilm #backroom #TellYourStory
#skywriters
Everybody in?
Let’s get to work.
Down and dirty.
Read ‘em and weep!
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity #noirfilm #backroom #TellYourStory
#skywriters