@Kate_Gale

I am a Goddess

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Joined June 2009
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Reading abroad kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Reading abroad

The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa I’ve read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa which was a rich journey of the imagination, impossible to put down like sifting through leaves.  These three n…

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Song backward kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Song backward

Just watched The Sound of my Voice which I loved and I also love The OA, which ripples an timbres along the wrist and the pulse,, a flicker of song backwards.  We all need.  That’s a sentence.  We …

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The Cabin, Our World kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

The Cabin, Our World

After birthday party and friends poetry and music  flowers   This is the world we made You don’t understand   Is there a time When you look inside the cabin   Look inside the cabin T…

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Travel through time kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Travel through time

You travel to London and then New York.  You do all these meetings and you also meet with friends and you also sleep and miss the dog and miss your family and the press and the goings on in Califor…

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Labrynth, David Ulin kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Labrynth, David Ulin

  I read the whole book last night; it’s a fast read, a love letter to San Francisco, and a conversation with the subject of memory so deeply in explored in Fates and Furies.  As a lover of th…

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Glass kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Glass

We saw the movie Glass last night.  I like M. Night; most of his movies make me think for months.  I loved The Village which made me think a lot about the cult/farm where I grew up.  You could leav…

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We create for ourselves a refuge. kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

We create for ourselves a refuge.

Finished The Woman Upstairs, a strange book about cruelty among women.  To make art, any act of cruelty is okay.  To make art, it’s okay to pretend to be friends with someone and just screw with th…

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New Mexico kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

New Mexico

Winter Institute is an adventure.  The first day we drove in a snowstorm to Santa Fe for lunch with a writer and to visit bookstores. Then the rep picks began and now Erica Jong is here.  We had a …

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Edited till one in the morning kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Edited till one in the morning

Good night!

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Breathing Gratitude kategale.wordpress.com/2019/…

Breathing Gratitude

What we do on our day off: Two hour walk with dog, breakfast, editing, dinner party for four of us. Small and comfortable. What I do previous days: Slather in bed with a migraine. I take the hard s…

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Dear Elizabeth Warren, kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Dear Elizabeth Warren,

  Americans are a great group of folks.  We like to have fun; we like barbecues and hot dogs, baseball and music.  We love our country.  We love all the different people in this country.  We a…

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Feeling the blue kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Feeling the blue

After Frankfurt, I feel a bit of a buzz of thought, of ideas.  The stomp of feet.  The many meetings stacked up on each other like pancakes.  I can’t swarm past them.  I eat a little yoghurt in the…

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London wet kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

London wet

When I woke this morning, I didn’t know where I was.  Half awake, I wandered down for coffee and realized that I was in London. It rained all day and I walked the park with my umbrella.  The swans …

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On planes kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

On planes

Travelling is a bit of smash into a seat next to a window that doesn’t open.  I want to do big things but I’m often wearing the wrong dress.  Why are people so mean? I think walking around NY.  I’m…

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Life is a mess kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Life is a mess

Life is messier than you expect it to be.  Maybe we all watch too many movies, In the movies, life is less messy, but things get sorted.  I’m writing this on a plane back from China, and I’m thinki…

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Still thinking about China kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Still thinking about China

Do you think I’ll make something of myself? I asked the adults at thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and sixteen. “Not for all the tea in China,” they said. I wondered how much tea I was up against. I rem…

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Books and wild kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Books and wild

Circe by Madeline Miller is a stunning book. I couldn’t stop reading the story of Circe.  Everyone should read this book; it’s the dawn of civilization. The beginning of religion. And then I read M…

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Ashland, Ohio kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Ashland, Ohio

Ashland is wet, there are fireflies, in the morning the dew waits on the grass.  I’m walking in the woods every day and the clouds come in.  The students here are open like the sky.  I am eating av…

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Bad Movies on long plane rides kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

Bad Movies on long plane rides

Nights in Rodanthe—Diane Lane seems to have a knack for romantic comedies.  In this one, she has a thing with Richard Gere.  Stuff I liked:  she puts her kids first.  Once she falls in love, …

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My Private Property, Mary Ruefle kategale.wordpress.com/2018/…

My Private Property, Mary Ruefle

In the squash and longing, Ruefle’s language steams up the windows.  I remember being in a car, kissing so long that the heat pushed back.  It’s like that.  Her brain and ideas sizzling along the f…

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