Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts

Monday, March 5, 2018

Slicing the staff of life #sol18


El Almuerzo by Diego Velázquez (Public Domain)


Slicing it one day at a time brings me to day five of Two Writing Teachers' 11th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge (SOLSC). 

Today's life slice is bread: the staff of life, sustenance beyond just  food “bread and butter.” Bread or dough is cash, plain and simple. Breaking bread with others is more than sharing a meal: joining in and sustaining the spirit — a fitting image for the spiritual nourishment of sharing words in a writing community. 

Read more about about bread as a global staff of life and even poetry: Pablo Neruda's "Oda al pan" and César Vallejo's "El pan nuestro" (among others) because "poetry, like bread, is for everyone." (from "Como Tú" by Roque Dalton, translation by Jack Hirschman)