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In "Writing Down The Bones", Natalie writes;
"In Paris, I was astounded by how many cafes there were. It is considered impolite
to hurry a customer. You can order one coffee at eight A.M. and still be sipping it
with no pressure at three P.M. Hemingway tells of writing in cafes in Paris and how
James Joyce might be a few tables away. When I arrived there last June, I
understood why so many American writers became expatriates: there are probably
five cafes to every block in Paris, and they are all beckoning you to write, and
writing in them is very acceptable.
In America, people are wary of writing. Except for filling out a form or writing a
check, they think it is very exotic, so they leave you alone, though some are
secretly fascinated and glance over at you every once in a while. Writing is not a
natural part of the American context. Use that attitude to your advantage. You will
be left alone when you write in public.
Oh yes, in the Rainbow Cafe, a 3.2 bar in Hill City, Minnesota, a teenager playing
pool one afternoon, as I was writing at a nearby booth, yelled over to me, "Hey, you
write faster than I think." And a little later, "If you keep this up and come back
tomorrow, the whole town'll be out here to watch you."
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Hello! I just wanted to say Hi today.Tuesday, February 27, 2001
Hi and I see you! Hi and I'm happy your here!
Welcome to our new look. Welcome to more importantly, our new format!
Blogger is an awesome web tool, and its easy to use... So please, my favored friend who is looking at this page right now, click the email ambrosiacafe link and let's get started! or rather, yank one of us on instant messager and we'll be sure to head you to the next step.(Did that sound too desperate?)**you can tell cre wrote this, although you will notice only 4 exclamation points***
Ambrosia Cafe
8:46 AM
Is there anything that we can't accomplish in a single day?
I like your solution to the right side of the page.
I changed the things that said The Daily Brew to Ambrosia Cafe.
And updated the archive too.
All that's left is to change the URL.Damn, we're good.
Oh, and you did nothing wrong. I put the font back on default.
It probably just refreshed when you posted.
Ambrosia Cafe
7:49 PM
I see what I did, i made it smaller duh. I like what you did sprigg, thank you for fixing it.
Cre 8tivenest
4:48 PM
Alas for us. I should not be allowed to be fancy. I lost your nice font, and aLL I did was post! I must do something wrong, but it was a nice clear font and now its back to default I think So what did I do wrong?
Cre 8tivenest
4:46 PM
yep and I can always try to look clever by doing this.
Cre 8tivenest
4:41 PM
I fixed what I knew how to.
I couldn't get the rainbow colors to come back.
At least we're having some fun, huh?
The Spriggan
2:27 PM
peace
peacetwo
peacethree
pass the peace please
Cre 8tivenest
2:27 PM
another another another anothr post for posterity
Cre 8tivenest
2:19 PM
what did you do that the first line of my post didn't take, nothing I know but is this fruity or what.
such neat vibrancy.
Ok so why didn't the first line of the text show up?
what is going on here?
Cre 8tivenest
2:06 PM
ooo you up early too.
my finger hurt and i could not sleep
Cre 8tivenest
6:52 AM
My goodness, you get up early in the morning!
I tossed and turned and couldn't get to sleep last night, and then I had such dreams!
The Spriggan
6:14 AM
when am I ever busy. It will be nice to spend time with you. sure am up for it.Monday, February 26, 2001
Cre 8tivenest
1:34 AM
If you're not busy - I'm stuck at home with a sick kid, and it's three days until March. We could probably get this up and running by the beginning of the month.
I'm game.
The Spriggan
7:50 PM
Okay. I am partially assuming that you and I are the only living souls blogging here.Saturday, February 24, 2001
I realize there's a link, and all, and Splashy might check in from time to time.
But anyway, I'm going to run with your idea this afternoon.
I've seen blogs that are essentially web sites complete unto themselves. There is the blogging area, where the posts go, which can apparently be set up in any configuration one desires. And then along the side or across the top, there are the links to everywhere else one could possibly go.
I think if we want to make this blog Ambrosia's Home Page, which I think is an excellent idea, we'll want to design it along those lines.
Should we change the name to Ambrosia Cafe?
Do we want to delete all the stuff here from the previous two months?
Begin fresh. A clean slate?
The Spriggan
7:47 PM
I was taking a walk down an idyllic little street in cyberspace, not far from here, today, and I stopped in a little place calledFriday, February 23, 2001
Arcanum Cafe. They have an online literary zine there, called 'Literary Espresso', and are looking for submissions of poetry and whatnot. There are creative articles to read and links to other writing and arts sites.
The Spriggan
6:28 PM
The silence is broken.
The Spriggan
1:05 PM
The inspiration behind Ambrosia Cafe is the idea of a cozy corner cafe', where friends can gather and talk about their lives, where we can escape the routiens and responsibilities of our days, and find some R & R & R (Rest, Relaxation, and Reality Checks - yes, how can we live without those?)Come to the cafe' and write, compose, create, and explore the hidden recesses of your dreams again.
Ambrosia Cafe
12:04 PM
The Diaries of Mad Housewives.I love this one.
I'm sorry, I'm in such a mood!
Ambrosia Cafe
12:00 PM
Rebirth of a weblog.Ideas in progress.
The ezine idea seems somewhat constricting. Perhaps it limits us to preconceptions of an online magazine. It conjures images of 'articles', 'columns', 'information', 'commercialization', which we do not find ourselves to be in tune with. What we need is something more avant-garde, something more open to interpretation, something that begins in a less defined state, so that we can pursue our own evolution here. Considering the format, this is an excellent place for on-going conversations, like the conversations we would be having if we really could meet each other at the corner cafe' and simply talk, over coffee, together.
Ambrosia Cafe
11:53 AM
I liked what you said about sending out auto invites to everyone. This is a cool tool. I know people are busy out there, but its still a cool way to connect. I like seeing all the messages at once. It can be just for "us" and we can put a real mail link saying ambrosiacafe (email hyperlink) to Join... and we can connect it to the front page of ambrosia- and forget the ezboard.we can always use the general boards at yahoo for day to day stuff-too.
Cre 8tivenest
7:52 AM
Twenty two days of silence.Thursday, February 01, 2001
I think it's time to rethink.
We aren't giving ourselves a voice here.
The Spriggan
7:25 AM
Brew HaikuMonday, January 29, 2001"We are taught that a haiku is a Japanese short poem form. It has seventeen syllables and is written in three lines. Children in elementary schools all over the United States are taught to write these three-line poems, but in truth, they are not haiku. If you sit down and read a lot of Basho, Shiki, Issa, Buson, four of the greatest Haiku masters, you will see that, in fact, they do not even follow the form of seventeen syllables with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. Japanese is a very different language from English. Each syllable in Japanese carries a lot more weight than it does in English, so in order to write haiku in English, just use three short lines. Skip the syllable count.
But what then makes it haiku and not just a short poem? If you read a lot of haiku, you see there is a leap that happens, a moment where the poet makes a large jump and the reader's mind must catch up. This creates a little sensation of space in the reader's mind, which is nothing less than a moment's experience of God, and when you feel it, there is usually an "ahhh" wanting to issue from your lips.
"Among the grasses,
A flower blooms white,
Its name unknown."
-Shiki"The scent and colour
Of the wisteria
Seem far from the moon."
-Buson"Spring departs
Trembling, in the grasses
Of the fields."
-Issa"The voice of the pheasant;
How I longed
For my dead parents!"
-BashoThat sensation of space is a true test of haiku. No matter how well we learn to write three-line poems, it takes much practice to fill those three lines with an experience of God. Basho has said that if you write five haiku in your life, you are a haiku writer, and if you write ten, you are a master."
(excerpt from the chapter "A Sensation of Space"
"Writing Down The Bones"
by Natalie Goldberg)
The Spriggan
10:03 AM
I sniff coffee dust
to get a natural high
powdery finish(hehe)(coffee makeup?)
Cre 8tivenest
10:08 AM
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