Comments for Rain: A Dust Bowl Story http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com The story of a 1930's family fighting a storm Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/welcome/#comment-3964 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:07:54 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-3964 Sandy, thank you for our first post of 2013. Maybe your words of wisdom can serve as a mantra for that year for many of us. I’m not sure my characters dance, but simply to be able to stand there and “take it” is something life demands of them. You’re certainly right that it’s useless to wish the storms away.

]]> Comment on by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/welcome/#comment-3764 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:19:45 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-3764 philipparees says after Episode 9:

November 25, 2012, 3:20 pm

Another reason to comment…so clever, poetry about politics! Not often attempted since Shelley.

My Response:

Thank you! Readers can find philipparees’ site to click through after Episode 1. Steinbeck is the master, and philipparees tells us that she lives within eyesight of a cottage in England where he once wrote. Fred Allen quotes Steinbeck as having told him: “The form will develop in the telling….Don’t make the telling follow a form.”

]]> Comment on 9. December 15: It Gets Late by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/9-december-15-it-gets-late/#comment-3763 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:13:49 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?page_id=89#comment-3763 I’ll respond to this and your other kind comment on my Welcome page.

]]> Comment on by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/welcome/#comment-3762 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:11:49 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-3762 Waffle-Wednesday Says: after Episode 320:

December 1, 2012, 6:55 am

what a gem of a blog!

My Response,

Thank you, Liesel. Readers can click through to your website at Episode 320. Liesel is struggling with the same question we all are this Christmas: how to reduce gun violence in this country. For myself, I’m staying away this season from any movie that has a gun (or even a spear!)…

]]> Comment on 320. Evening, May 31, 1935 by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/320-evening-may-31-1935/#comment-3761 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:07:41 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/#comment-3761 Waffle-Wednesday: Liesl, I respond on the Welcome page.

]]> Comment on 320. Evening, May 31, 1935 by Waffle-Wednesday http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/320-evening-may-31-1935/#comment-3522 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:55:40 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/#comment-3522 what a gem of a blog!

]]> Comment on 9. December 15: It Gets Late by philipparees http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/9-december-15-it-gets-late/#comment-3484 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:20:01 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?page_id=89#comment-3484 Another reason to comment…so clever poetry about politics! Not often attempted since Shelley

]]> Comment on 1. The Farm House Burns by philipparees http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/the-farm-house-burns/#comment-3483 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:15:41 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?page_id=16#comment-3483 Quite wonderful to find this work! For me a confirmation because I have also written a poetic novella – a portrait of the sixties called ‘A Shadow in Yucatan’ and I completely understand the impulse behind this immediate way of conveying both people and place. You do it beautifully and I think ‘publishing it this way on line will give you all the reader feedback possible. I wish I had done that but in 2006 I was not even aware of the options. If you want to sample a similar concept you can find it here http://authonomy.com/books/1894/a-shadow-in-yucatan/ The whole book is available to read there, but I shall read on with your. Your characters spring into life because of the economy. I quite agree that ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ reach deep into the psyche…I also live within sight of Steinbeck’s Cottage he occupied while writing in England…so many many connections!

]]> Comment on by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/welcome/#comment-3431 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:22:00 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-3431 dzonokwa says after Episode 10:

November 13, 7:07 p.m.

This is off your particular topic but I wanted to connect in the hopes that you are following up on the Sac Bee’s story on The Dust Bowl and all the talk about Ken Burns’ new film “The Dust Bowl” PBS documentary, airing Sun and Monday at 8 pm on Channel 6. There must be some way to lead readers to your wonderful collection of poems. Does Ken Burns know about you? He needs to.Letter to Sac Bee? I will write one now.
Ann Rothschild.

My Response:

Thank you! Ken Burns has said of the Dust Bowl: “It blew Oklahoma all the way to the Atlantic.” It’s rare to have someone who is both as brilliant and as humane as Ken Burns. I hope all my readers will watch his Dust Bowl special on PBS November 18th and 19th. Burns says of this film, “We are in the service of good story.”

With Rain: A Dust Bowl Story, so am I.

]]> Comment on 10. Spring 1934: Bird’s Eye View by sshaver http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/10-spring-1934-birds-eye-view/#comment-3430 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:12:57 +0000 http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com/?page_id=92#comment-3430 dzonokwa,

Yes, definitely. I will respond to your comment on the welcome page.

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