At the Nueva Posada Writers’ Group Reading today: (Click photos to enlarge.)
Paying Close Attention. . .
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Open Reading at the Nueva Posada
Open Reading at the Nueva Posada
They gather at their tables in the heat or in the cold,
ears perked for the errors in the stories they’ll be told.
They’ll be listening for the puerile and and the grisly and the trite,
jotting down their notes for the misstatements that they’ll cite.
Then, their criticism over, they’ll play another game,
giving their approval and voicing their acclaim
for a perfect metaphor or meter that is tight.
How you built the tension and got it all just right.
Thus do we meet to ebb and flow, to criticize and praise.—
to inform, amuse, maybe to bore or to amaze.
This is how we come together first to teach and then be taught
by sharing with each other the best that we have got!
Prompt words today are cold, table, grisly, puerile and criticism.
Holiday Decor at the Nueva Posada
Every year, the decorations at the Nueva Posada are done by the same man and they are always fabulous. He is pictured beside the lit tree in the entrance to the hotel.
(As always, click on photos to enlarge.)
For the Sunday Stills Challenge.
Suffering for Their Art
Click on first photo to enlarge all. jdbphotos
The crowd at the bi-monthly reading on the Nueva Posada terrace was about 1/3 the usual number of readers and listeners. The wind off the lake didn’t help to mitigate the already cold weather, and as the reading progressed, there were fewer and fewer listeners and less and less to see of the ones who remained. I was the last to read, and although the comments were positive, they were few and far between. What was first and foremost on everyone’s mind was to go into the restaurant for a warm meal. And you thought Mexico was always warm???
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