Member of the Alabama Bluegrass Hall of Fame, the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, and the 2017 recipient of the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award. Distinctions include three International Bluegrass Association Awards, another six nominations, two Grammy cuts, 2014 IBMA Song of the Year (“Dear Sister”), 1993 SPBGMA Song of the Year (“Steel Rails”). Louisa Branscomb, author of two poetry chapbooks, an icon in acoustic and bluegrass music. Many float comfortably between poetic narrative and song, uplifting and lyrical: “I closed my eyes,/ caressed her soul,/ and stars, like legends, soared across the sky.” I imagine them to be spoken aloud from one to another, on a languid evening in spring or a snowbound night in winter – one to another, when all that matters is that new love becomes old. This assemblage of poems from Lindsley is an inspired venture into the charm of new love, love lost, and love remembered. Patricia Blanks, classmate, Librarian (retired) and first reader. Some poems made me cry. Wish June could have seen this. So many of those poems made me think of the freedom I had as a child, roaming the pastures and creek bottom on my pony. Her books include Zen Fishing and Other Southern Pleasures (poetry) and a children’s book The Week of Dream Horses as well as others. Her works have appeared in more than eighty literary magazines. Perhaps the most powerful piece was “The Morning After Your Death.” Tears filled my eyes at the line, “You would have loved this day…” such poignancy! Susan Lindsley has a fine work here, and it is worth a read to remember many precious memories!ĭorothy Fletcher, Historian, teacher, columnist and nationally known poet, winner of the 2006 Robert Frost Poetry Contest and speaker at the Library of Congress’ Poetry at Noon Series. I was moved by the great affection she had for the pony she loved I could just see the sexiness of the summer and autumn leaves, and I felt humbled by the solemnity of her poems about graves and battlefields. Like Proust, Lindsley was able to revel in the joys of “yestertimes” and bring the reader along for the ride. I enjoyed reading Susan Lindsley’s book of poems and photographs, WHEN YESTERTIME WAS NOW, because I was immediately reminded of another favorite of mine, Marcel Proust’s REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST. Peggy June Mercer BMI, Georgia Author of the Year, 2011 Remembered “takes” on her own life, become takes on the readers and our journey is richer for reading this author. Download and install the emoji plugin to enable.Susan Lindsley can write anything (and win awards!) but her poetry collections are first place with me….Her poems have “life” and I can see, touch, smell, hear and taste as I read the lyrical, musical musings…so autobiographical, rich in precious memories and world class in composition. Download and install the footnotes plugin to enable.ĭisabled by default. In addition to trailing whitespace, you can also use a trailing backslash to achieve the same result.ĭisabled by default. Inkdrop provides support for the following Markdown elements. And, on a note somewhat unrelated to the application itself, you might be interested in learning that Inkdrop’s developer is a prolific blogger who takes security seriously. A variety of plugins allow you to add flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and (my personal favorite) admonitions. One of the best parts of Inkdrop is that it’s extensible. Organizing notes is easy with notebooks, statuses, and tags. You create an account on the Inkdrop website (free trial available, then monthly subscription required), download the desktop and mobile applications, and start writing. Inkdrop is a Markdown note-taking app with a great feature set.
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