Madeline L'Engle, Mother Language Day, Scary Politics, and Religious Literarcy...

[shadowkat]

1. Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle being Adapted for Film by Frozen's Jennifer Lee and will be directed by Selma's Ava DuVernay.

Disney is busy, busy, busy. And the above link lead to...

2. 5 Valuable Writing Tips From Madeline L'Engle Below are one and two of the five tips:

When we write and are published, we become naked before people. And that means we are open to criticism. That’s a risk you have to take. If you write a book that says something and it pleases everybody, you’ve failed . . . If you’re going to write and be published, you’ve got to expect to have a few arrows thrown at you. They’re going to hurt, and you’re going to bleed. You’re probably going to cry if you’re like me. But that’s just part of it and you have to learn.

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Risk is essential. It’s scary. Every time I sit down and start the first page of a novel I am risking failure. We are encouraged in this world not to fail … We are encouraged only to do that which we can be successful in. But things are accomplished only by our risk of failure. Writers will never do anything beyond the first thing unless they risk growing.

3. President Obama Signs Executive Order Relocating Congress to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Hee, hee.

4. Senate GOP Decides No Hearing For Any Obama Scotus Nominee

So, this begs the question did Obama relocate just the GOP portion of the Senate to Guantanamo Bay and while he's at it, could he also relocate all real estate developers (including Trump)?

5. Memorial Honoring Linguistic Freedom Set up by Local Bengali Community in my Neighborhood of Kensington, Brooklyn

And Here is the Bengali Story behind mother language day, which is February 21.

The 21st of February is known internationally as International Mother Language Day, chosen because of the tragic — yet catalyzing— events that transpired on that day in 1952 in Bangladesh. The following is a very brief exploration of the Bengali Language Movement, the fight for linguistic and cultural rights, and the meaning behind Ekushey (21st) February.

6. Hmmmm...Harvard is offering a free online course in Religious Literacy

The edX series will include six classes on different subjects that will each run for four weeks. Moore is teaching the first course in the series on "Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures," which begins on March 1. The next five will dive into specific faiths, covering Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism.

Go here for the course info - Religious Literacy Traditions

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

We were talking about the "Mother Language Day" in my German evening class yesterday, and I got the impression that it was a purely German event. (German has a lot of local dialects, which are feared to be dying out due to TV and greater regional mobility within the country.)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was meant generally for more than one country, but each individual country is taking ownership of it? Because there is a memorial put up for it in front of the Bengali Community Center in my neighborhood. I saw it on the way to the subway station this morning.