Solace in a Book

  • Home
  • Ellen Wade Beals
  • SOLACE in So Many Words
    • Discussion Questions for Solace in So Many Words
    • Reviews
    • Contributors
    • PRESS KIT
  • Weighed Words
  • Submissions
  • Events
  • Contact

Happy Thanksgiving

11/23/2017 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

Hope your holiday is wonderful.  Thanks for reading this blog.  I have much to be grateful for and I hope you do too.

Today’s photo comes from Laura Rodley who explains:  “The photo I took while driving home and all of a sudden the clouds were setting on top of the cornfield like a  Shangri-la and I had to stop and enter their green vibrating world.”

Thank-you, Laura.  Let us hope we can all find our own version of Shangri-la.

Shangri-la © Laura Rodley, 2017
Shangri-la © Laura Rodley, 2017

 

FINAL FRONT COVERLaura Rodley, is a Pushcart Prize winner, a quintuple Pushcart Prize nominee, and quintuple Best of Net nominee, with work in Best Indie Lit NE.  Publisher Finishing Line Press nominated her Your Left Front Wheel Is Coming Loose for a PEN L.L.Winship Award and Mass Book Award. FLP also nominated her Rappelling Blue Light for a Mass Book Award. Former co-curator of the Collected Poets Series, Rodley teaches the As You Write It memoir class and has edited and published As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthology volumes I-VI, also nominated for a Mass Book Award. She was accepted at Martha’s Vineyard’s NOEPC and has been a consecutive participant in the 30 poems in 30 days fundraiser for the Literacy Project. Her book Counter Point was published by Prolific Press and book Turn Left at Normal by Big Table Publishing.

Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: Anthology, Chicago, Contributors, cornfield, Ellen Wade Beals, Glimpse of Solace, gratitude, green vibrating world, Happy Thanksgiving, Laura Rodley, Photography, Poetry, Shangri-la, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Weighed Words

Comments

  1. Bonnie Toomey says

    11/24/2017 at 3:30 pm

    Many thanks for sharing your Shangri-la moment.

  2. Ellen Beals says

    11/30/2017 at 11:11 pm

    Thanks for reading — happy holidays to you and yours.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Buy From

    Order Through PayPal:
    Number of copies
  • IndieBound
  • Amazon
  • Powell's
  • Barnes & Noble

Contact Ellen

Click here to email Ellen

Follow

Follow weighedwords on Twitter  Follow on Twitter
Follow Ellen on Facebook  Follow on Facebook
Share |

Categories

  • A Glimpse of Solace (145)
  • A Slice of Solace (51)
  • Blog (365)
  • Guest Posts (43)

Sites I Visit Often

  • Academy of American Poets
  • Betsy Lerner
  • Brendan Coudal
  • CJ Laity's chicagopoetry
  • Coffee-House Poetry
  • Curbside Splendor
  • Dave Bonta
  • Elster Photography
  • Emerging Writers Network
  • Escape into Life
  • Fiction Writers Review
  • Kathleen Kirk
  • Luisa A. Igloria
  • Mary Beth Coudal
  • Media Bistro
  • Moving Poems
  • Mslexia
  • Nathan Bransford
  • New Pages
  • Poetry Ireland
  • Role/Reboot
  • Salmon Poetry
  • Small Press Review
  • The Chicago Reader
  • The Guardian
  • The House That Del Built
  • The Morning News
  • The Morning Porch
  • The Nervous Breakdown
  • The New Yorker
  • The Paris Review
  • The Toronto Quarterly
  • The Utne Reader
  • This Blog Will Change Your Life
  • Tom Aplomb
  • Via Negativa
  • Woorat Photohaiku

Copyright © 2025 · Site Design: Ilsa Brink