"Why should we all use our creative powers? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money."

- Julia Cameron, "The Artist's Way"

(quotation sent to me by Laurel Beyer)

I've been spending too much time in front of my computer screen lately, so I'm going to cut this entry sho--

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?" - Vita Sackville-West

I just made some changes to the home page of my website.

http://donaldcampbell.tripod.com

I've been too busy with CBC's "ZeD" website and this blog site to do much with my regular website lately.

When discussing the spring-like weather that we're having now, I taught my English as a Second Language (ESL) students "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." and "Enjoy it while it lasts." On March 1, I taught them "If March comes in like a lamb, it'll go out like a lion." and discussed the unpredictability of Saskatchewan weather this time of year.

However, I'm feeling optimistic about the weather!

"It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else."

- novelist Robert Harris

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"BE KIND, FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING A GREAT BATTLE."

- Philo of Alexandria

(Thanks to Laurel Beyer for sending me that quotation!)