Jenelle

Crouched and Waiting; Things to Blog About (Soon, You) I must say, I welcome you to send me one-line nudges a ‘la “please post a new blog, dear” via the messenger bird, the postcard, the Twitter, or email (freshgreenbeans at gmail). Extra points if you can manage it as a haiku. I’ll post the best of them here. There is so much I’ve queued […] No responses March 17, 2013
I am (an organized) ENFP, Hear me Rawr; or, OT Bible Study Mapping Pardon me as I assert my personality type, for a moment. I am, in fact, an organized ENFP. “ENFP” is one of 16 personality types born from the Myers Briggs Assessment. (To summarize in brief, Myers Briggs itself is largely derived from Carl Jung’s psychological theories.) You must know that ENFPs are often known for […] 3 responses January 19, 2013
Finding Solitude in the City; or, John Keats’ first published Piece O Solitude (1816) O SOLITUDE! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; – climb with me the steep, Nature’s Observatory – whence the dell, Its flowery slopes – its rivers crystal swell, May seem a span: let me thy vigils keep ‘Mongst boughs pavilioned; where […] No responses January 12, 2013
In December, Drinking Horchata! – Recipe Experimentation [Part 1] I’m experimenting with a homemade horchata recipe here on the East coast, to bring a little East LA flavor to our open house on Sunday. My recipe will include agave. Who doesn’t love agave? If all goes well, I’ll use this same recipe for our New Years Eve party on Monday. (Yes, you are invited.) […] No responses December 29, 2012
Dear 2012,You Were Good, but in 2013, My Sabbath must be Real. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work (Exodus 20:8). Is it possible for a human being to do all his work in six days? Does not our work always remain incomplete? What the verse means to convey is: Rest on the Sabbath as if all your work were done. Another interpretation: Rest […] No responses December 28, 2012
Três coisas; three things. Notes to Self. 1. Restart the call for impromptu poetry, as you once did. Maybe some haikus? Haikus are fun. Haikus are vastly underappreciated (at least in the West.) Does anyone write poetry for sport anymore? 2. Create an epic book queue list, since you are always in the middle of four score and seven […] 2 responses December 27, 2012
A Rough Mind-Map of Ezra Pound Sometimes it helps to draw out the context around things. This is how I made sense of Ezra Pound and his place in modernist poetry as I was thumbing through his Translations on Christmas Eve. I always knew he’d helped propel T.S. Eliot into stardom, but I actually didn’t realize how close he was with […] No responses December 26, 2012
“These Are No Sonnets for an Idle Hour”; Italian Poetry in Translation Ever since I was an undergraduate at UMBC, I have been awestruck by the impossibility of such things as translating poetry. It cannot truly be done without re-creating the poem into a new form, because of the obvious limits of word-for-word translation. I spent my final year at UMBC studying Guido Cavalcanti’s poems in […] No responses December 26, 2012
The Baby Jesus (& Risen Jesus) Would Like Me to Read More This Christmas, my family was all together, my brother cooked killer steaks on the grill, and I basked in the wonder of how many incredible books I received as gifts. (I also ran 7 miles, which felt altogether wonderful.) I promised Rachel Chester–please lady, do start blogging again–that I would post a quick list of the […] 2 responses December 25, 2012
2013, I see you. I look forward to returning to these goals and crossing them off with a thick blue magical pen. Made with Paper app for the iPad. (Buy the $6.99 expansion pack, trust me.) No responses December 21, 2012
I Want to Run Fast Once upon a time, I hated running. I thought people who said they enjoyed running were slightly deranged and masochistic. At one point in my twenties, I started to approach running as more of a coping mechanism. Ahh, the early twenties, when everything felt impossible and wonderful and horrible, simultaneously. (I think Taylor Swift calls […] No responses December 20, 2012
Streams for Monday: Oh, Practice [Texture by Habaneros] No responses December 17, 2012