Saturday Good Reads

Painting a house, the legacy for our children, why a little girl needs her father, even a beautiful video on carpentry – some great things to read on see online last week.

Prose

“Garden > Wilderness > Garden” by Bob Spencer at Wilderness Fandango.

“Radical Grace” by Michael Perkins at Untitled.

“Investment” by Bill Grandi at Cycleguy.

“Would You Rather” by Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

“What Do We Pass on to Our Children?” by Claire Burge at Claire B.

“Do You Suck the Life Out of Everything?” by Jessica McGuire at Jezamama.

“If it weren’t for the sting of death” by Duane Scott.

“This is How I Go When I Go Like This: Painting the House” by Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

“Are You Taking Enough Risks?” by Bradley Moore at Shrinking the Camel.

“Why I hate writing, part 9: Honesty” by Kathy Richards at Katdish.

“For Daddy Because She Needs You” by Jennifer Dukes-Lee for Imperfect Prose.

Poetry

“Two Songs of a Fool” by William Butler Yeats, read by Tom O’Bedlam at Spoken Verse.

“Miracles” by Walt Whitman, read by Tom O’Bedlam at Spoken Verse.

“Almost Sixty” by Jim Moore.

“Decay” by Gwylym Owen at Illiterate Poet.

“Boldly Go” by Rob Kistner at Image and Verse.

“Not So Pretty” by B.K. McKenzie at Signed…BKM.

“Let Me Tell You” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

“Cliches” by Jim Schmotzer at Faithful Skeptic.

“I’m Homeless” by Duane Scott.

“Wings” by Nancy Rosback at A Little Somethin’.

Paintings and Photographs

“The Midnight Hour” and “Maneuvering Room” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

"Through Leaded Lights" by J of India at Neither Use Nor Ornament.

“Practice Makes Prints” by Nancy Rosback at A Little Somethin’.

Videos

“Make Something of Yourself,” a short video on carpentry, via Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

Photograph: Work by Nancy Rosback. Used with permission.