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Blog postLast night I stayed up late gazing at my Colombia itinerary & gloating. I’ll be traveling in Colombia most of the month of July.
I mostly live such a quiet life, editing & reading & making art in solitude. But I grew up sleeping under mosquito nets & using an outhouse & shoveling our mostly organic trash into pits my dad dug in the backyard, & feeding the chickens & trying to identify rocks from the river beach & helping to push our rattly old jeep out -
Blog postPicturing God has received a couple of beautiful endorsements thus far, from fellow writers for children & families. I am honored by their kind words!
“Colorful, richly textured, and wildly creative, Picturing God is a delight. Ruth Goring’s visual and literary exploration of many names and metaphors for God will open readers’ minds and hearts to that Word who is love. I love this book!”
—Jennifer Grant, award-winning author of Maybe God Is Like That Too and Maybe I Can Lo -
Blog postIn April I was privileged to spend a week in eastern Tennessee, not far from the historic Cumberland Gap. The poet Denton Loving has launched an unusual writing residency based in a small house he owns on a country lane. (That lane is literally just one lane wide—I hadn’t been on a road that narrow since my childhood in Colombia!)
It’s a magical part of the country.
The unusual nature of this residency is the solitude. Denton is available to answer questions & solve proble -
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Blog postHave you watched videos or read about schoolteacher Luis Soriano’s biblioburro mobile library–books he mounts on his two donkeys & takes to children in remote regions of Magdalena Department (province) in Colombia? He named his donkeys Alfa & Beto, the two halves of the word alphabet in Spanish. (Fun bonus: the word literacy in Spanish is alfabetización. The biblioburros are definitely a literacy project!) See a delightful interview with him (with subtitles) at the link ab
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Blog postI’ve just come off a marathon of artmaking—revisions for my forthcoming book. I sent snapshots off to my editor Tuesday morning, and for the next few days I made good progress on projects at my workplace but hardly did anything at home. Making this art is very nurturing, but whew! it’s also demanding.
This afternoon Lake Michigan called to me.
With an early moon.
While working on the art, I lived in almost complete solitude. The moment I approached the lake today, that -
Blog post“My thoughts were matches tossed into a dark window.”–Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
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Blog postMy new book will be released September 24, 2019, by Beaming Books. Picturing God is a milestone for me: the first book for which I’ve made the art as well as the text!
Of course there’s no way to create a faithful and complete visual representation of God. We have the stern “no graven image” commandment to protect us from that illusion. But the Bible is full of symbols and metaphors to help us picture and experience God in the depths of ourselves, via our imagination connected to our -
Blog postLike most writers, I hate rejections–those polite “doesn’t meet our needs at this time” emails. Another one of them came yesterday. I have cultivated a thick skin, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care.
Then there are the prizes, which always seem to be won by someone else–usually somebody younger, which is objectively not surprising since I’m in my sixties. They have an edge of genius I lack. I’m mediocre.
Or sometimes: They have a spouse or partner whose income & presence a -
Blog postLet me introduce you to a new book, just released in June: Caras lindas de Colombia / Beautiful Faces of Colombia. It collects stunning photos by Michael Bracey, a Chicago photographer of the African Diaspora, with English-Spanish bilingual text by me.
Mike’s work has won a number of awards; he has published numerous other books, notably Africans Within the Americas, & is a foundation member of CAAAP (Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers).
Mike & I origin -
Blog postOf course it’s actually different for everybody. I grew up in Colombia from the age of six, & having our chickens stolen from the yard, or our house broken into after we moved to the city, was unpleasant but never wholly unexpected. One incident we laughed about happened on a busy market street in Medellín. … Continue reading "What it’s like to be robbed, plus heads-up on a two-man CTA trick"
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