A post while I work on the other posts I'm writing....

As promised in the last post, I am working away on a new installment of "In The Word Cellar" all about researching and choosing a graduate writing program. The kindling seems to have caught the bigger logs on fire, and the post keeps getting longer and longer. I think I may be writing a few posts all at once and will have to break it into more manageable sections, like this:

I went out for lunch today and stopped to take some photos of this amazing brick wall. I've passed it dozens of times, but today was the first time I really took it in. I'm so impressed by the sweeping, yet intricate, beauty of it as a whole. And I'm in love with the details like the sweet little bird and the weird chubby vampire fella (which is my favorite, I think) in the close-up shot above. (Just for fun, can you find the image of a president in the first photo?)

I'm sure I could whip up some deeper metaphor about how this mural is like writing -- parts of a whole and all that -- but it's late and I'm tired and sometimes it's just nice to look at the pretty colors. If you're feeling metaphorically inclined, please have at it in the comments.

More soon....