STILL BLOOMING - from Author Celine Keating

STILL BLOOMING - from Author Celine Keating

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Celebrating Women—in Book Clubs, Art, and a Novel
“Books are where imagination and reality meet.” – Ali Smith
 • Celine Keating
Celebrating Black History, Fiction...and Snow!
“Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.
 • Celine Keating
January: A Time for Calm and Reflection
“Who can become lost in a narrative,
 • Celine Keating
All About Sharing
“Perhaps our ability to behold is what sets us apart…The ability to stop, drop everything, let the line go slack…and just stand in awe.”
 • Celine Keating
Embracing gratitude, despite…[fill in the blank!]
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” — A.A.
 • Celine Keating
This Is Happiness
“Still, in that library I experienced loneliness, real loneliness, but also exquisite artistic loneliness: You’re lonely but also exquisitely happy if…
 • Celine Keating
Writerly Camaraderie, Thoughts on How Writers Approach Plot, and Charlotte McConaghy’s new novel
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf
 • Celine Keating
Summertime Diversions and Upcoming Events
“Beat [writers’ block] into submission.
 • Celine Keating
An Ingenious Idea to Honor Bookstores
“Write to please just one person.
 • Celine Keating
Blooming...In Progress
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
 • Celine Keating
In Praise of Writing Sisterhoods
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee
 • Celine Keating
A Sense of Place: Honoring Black History
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
 • Celine Keating
STILL BLOOMING - from Author Celine Keating
STILL BLOOMING - from Author Celine Keating
Words, deeds, and seeds It's a tough world. I share what keeps me joyful - writing, activism, nature. May it inspire you to keep blooming, too.
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