This is the fourth installment of Word Pictures – a collection of lovely and descriptive passages. Enjoy!
“Anyway, the subject skims the joy off a pan of conversation.” Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
“The patriarch was a taut raisin of a man…” referring to Charley Guthrie in Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
“…exotic-looking people who seemed to be baked the same color as their houses.” – Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
The sea
Took off her clothes
In the sun today
And naked
All night
With the wild wind lay
Written by Woody Guthrie while onboard the William B. Travis during travel for the merchant marine.
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