One would thinks it’s fall here, but it’s actually 20 days until the shortest day if the year and the beginning of winter.  The trees are all in prime fall colors, yellows, crimsons and rust-colored oranges.  Canadian geese are gnawing away on the grass at the local high school football field which makes watching a game interesting and trying to score even more so.  I’m in Mill Valley, California which is on the path, the fly over, for many migrating birds.  Most of them don’t go any further than this city of 20,000, like “it’s nice here.  Why go any further?”  So, while most cities experience population drops during this and upcoming months, we actually experience growth.

I just want to write: happy thanksgiving!

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!

Hello! Haradh is a small village located about 280 km southwest of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Haradh is famous for its oil-rich and gas-rich fields. Several oil plants and a gas plant are located in the Haradh area.

It is located on top of the massive Ghawar Field. Come write about us!

SALMAN JABER ALMARRI

HELLO! Aljubail  has  a lot of pertrochemical companies, and it’s called SABIC. If you are going there, you will see a lot of trees–plum trees and so beautiful flowers. Also there are two beaches. When you come, you can write about all you see. You can write about the schools because all the schools have new buses! I would like you to come to Aljubail City. You will love it .

KHALID HADI ALMARRI

Today is the National Day of Writing. As a BGSU community, we join the rest of the world to celebrate the gift and the beauty of writing. Writing is an art; like music, it enables us to express ourselves freely, transcending the boundaries of culture, ethnicity and race that sometimes so divide us. It allows us to enjoy and celebrate life. To Barbara and the BGSU writing center community, PONGEZI!!

Writing dates back many years in the African Continent. In writing , we make  meaning of life.  Indeed, it is one way we have been able to preserve our culture and  cultural values. Words written enrich others.  Through words, our ancestors teach us. By reading their works, we interact with them in our day to day life!

My religion starts by right word. For that, we love writing! We are a writer people.

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!

I like the old songs of Fahad Ben Saeed and Mohammed Abdo and more singers; here’s an excerpt of Fahad’s song: 

AL ABAH AL RAHEFA FOG  THEC AL REDAIF **KALT AL GALB ESBER GASB MA HO BEKEFAH

Faisal

Glad to be a writer..I write poems since I was kid and now with a published catalog of license music at www.musicforlicense.net, I believe that writing words with music makes the words and its message unforgettable in both eyes and ears of a reader and a listener..

Regards,
Emerson from Cebu, Philippines.

A writer is nothing without a reader. Curiously people read less now, not counting tweets and bleats. Spread the reading habit, the reading skill. Love from Japan
Lawrie Hunter

I am so happy to write and share writing with the rest of world. I am a Chinese. I began to write at the age of four. My mom and dad had to hold my hand to put the strokes together  to form the Chinese characters. It was a hard process accompanied with tears, and it seemed to be a lot of fun when I look back now. But the initial sense of accomplishments had such an importance place in my life and my academic career that I later become a  teacher of  writing.

When I was little, my understanding of writing was limited. I thought writing was to complete  assignments from school and to score high on tests. Most of the time, I was a passive writer. During my middle school and college years, I found I learned so much from others’ writing. I could read others’ thoughts, live their lives, experience the excitement or horror that the real  life did not have.

Now I think writing not only enables me to know but also helps me to be known.  I can write and share  with others my life and experience, my insights, and expertise…  As my reading and writing skills progress, I gradually understand that writing is power. I not only get knowledge, I create meaning at the same time.  I can let others know how I look at the world from more than one perspective, because writing makes all these possible. I feel lucky I can read and write in both English and Chinese.

Writing gets us connected! Thanks to writing.

He just finished his initial field trip in China for his book called Authenticating Ethnic Tourism! Much Success!

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!

Kia ora! In New Zealand, much conflict and tension has resulted from a single word. The Treaty of Witangi, a central document from our past, was written in both English and Maori. One word – in English, the word “sovereignty” – was translated into Maori with a word that has quite different connotations. As a result. the Maori leaders and the English leaders signed quite different documents. the outcome has been a century of tension and conflict – and much more. Words matter. They can start wars, shed blood, heal wounds and relationships.

Tena koutou katoa!

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!

… to the well: check out how a Norwegian academic writing teacher have utilized the five paragraph essay as a method for higher education. (hereabouts kids rarely learn stuff like that): http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/logg?logg=14408
And congratulations to all on the Day Writing!

Nichita Stãnescu

Then we met more often.
I stood at one side of the hour,
you at the other,
like two handles of an amphora.
Only the words flew between us,
back and forth.
You could almost see their swirling,
and suddenly,
I would lower a knee,
and touch my elbow to the ground
to look at the grass, bent
by the falling of some word,
as though by the paw of a lion in flight.
The words spun between us,
back and forth,
and the more I loved you, the more
they continued, this whirl almost seen,
the structure of matter, the beginnings of things.

From the book “Bas-Relief with Heroes”
English translation by Thomas Carlson and Vasile Poenaru.

The world was created round so that writing might encircle it!