7/30/12 7/30/12

What Are You Ready to Give Up?

A wise attorney advises the main character to spend some time living with these three questions before deciding on his next course of action. They seem to apply to any time of challenge or transition.

7/28/12 7/28/12

It's About How We Treat One Another

7/27/12 7/27/12

The Space Between

"If you write a poem about love...
the love is a bird,

the poem is an origami bird.
If you write a poem about death...

the death is a terrible fire,
the poem is an offering of paper cutout flames

you feed to the fire.
We can see, in these, the space between

our gestures and the power they address
—an insufficiency. And yet a kind of beauty,

a distinctly human beauty."

~ Albert Goldbarth

7/19/12 7/19/12

What Can You Call Your Own

7/17/12 7/17/12

The Shape of the Story Rather than the Shape of Life

7/16/12 7/16/12

Lost in a Challenge

7/15/12 7/15/12

Stay, I Said

Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed
their heads lower.

~ Jane Hirshfield

7/12/12 7/12/12

This Hum is the Silence

7/11/12 7/11/12

The Excitement of Really Concentrating

Humans have a language instinct

But not necessarily a writing instinct.

The difference between talking and writing

Is the difference between breathing and singing well.

7/10/12 7/10/12

No Place to Stand

7/10/12 7/10/12

One Size Does Not Fit All

7/10/12 7/10/12

The Work is Up to You

7/9/12 7/9/12

After the Birth of the Simple Light

7/9/12 7/9/12

The Origins of Creative Insight

7/8/12 7/8/12

Thinking about the Mind

7/7/12 7/7/12

Doing Nothing

7/5/12 7/5/12

All These Years

7/3/12 7/3/12

Right Through Every Human Heart

7/2/12 7/2/12

Any Other Name but Breath and Light

"What is there beyond knowing that keeps
calling to me? I can't
turn in any direction
but it's there."

~ Mary Oliver

6/30/12 6/30/12

The Mind Postponing Action in Indecision