Comments for Deborah J. Brannon http://deborahjbrannon.com She talks to wolves and other wicked creatures. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Review: Jack o’ the Hills by C.S.E. Cooney by Shveta Thakrar http://deborahjbrannon.com/2012/05/review-jack-o-the-hills-by-c-s-e-cooney/#comment-9659 Shveta Thakrar Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:43:02 +0000 http://deborahjbrannon.com/?p=492#comment-9659 These are stories that made me shudder with horror and revulsion, but also had me clinging to the pages with delighted wonder and avid hunger.

Yep, this pretty much. Thanks for the review!

]]> Comment on No magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely. by Micromovements: » Blog Archive » Chicken Soup http://deborahjbrannon.com/2011/11/396/#comment-6131 Micromovements: » Blog Archive » Chicken Soup Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:22:39 +0000 http://deborahjbrannon.com/?p=396#comment-6131 [...] But it was good to get home.  To some quiet. To my dogs.  To some soup.  This push pull between outer and inner selves is a difficult one to navigate.  For me at least, too much time around too many people is enough to wear me right down to my soul’s last nerve and then I am good for no one.  That said, too many days on my own and I can get a little depressed.  A good buffer for this is the online community of fellow bloggers, artisans, writers and thinkers that I keep track of via Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, etc.  Over time, I have come to rely on checking in with certain bloggers whose take on life, art and just stuff in general can shake up any stagnancy that might be happening in my own work.  I mentioned Rachel above.  Although she is years behind me in the mama-trip, she is wise and mellow and funny and I look forward to her posts about their life in the mountains of Colorado.  It is fun to follow bloggers near and far.  Near is the gratitude practice blog of my friend Julie at the Magic Beans Workshop.  And far; I have come to follow a number of artists in a village in England called Devon.  I’ve admired the work of Rima Staines for years.  I came across her work when I was delving into anything and everything that might be found in the pages of Women Who Run With the Wolves.  In art school I had trained as a sculptor and leaned mainly toward abstraction and texture and material to give any sense of narrative in my work.  But as I have written recently, narration born of imagery and collective story (the fairy tale) is where my heart is lately and where my online research is taking me.  The artists I have been reading about in Devon are all steeped in the work that calls to me.  One of my favorites is Terri Windling.  She is a writer, a visual artist, a prolific blogger.  Many people look to her as a beacon in the nebulous and difficult world of Creative Work.  I look forward to her blog posts daily with their links to magical places and people and inspiring things to consider.  Some folks even credit her writing as life-saving. [...]

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