Why not follow your dreams? Let’s take an example from every workshop you have ever taken. You start your list of pros and cons. I’ll start mine. First thoughts count twice as much as those that you’ve edited, tossed, put back somewhere else on the list and tossed again. Images improve the quality of...
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Some days we can jump the rapids
At first I was wondering if amniotic fluid was like the ocean. But the day’s journey began thinking about the color salmon; whether it works on the walls of your home or not. I remembered hearing about a paint called “dead salmon.” Clever name. Cynicism comes to your local paint and hardware store. It...
The organizing principle
Reframing ideas requires no matting or measuring. It might require the skills that a good turn of mind can provide through the agency of a friend or an open moment when your breath comes easily and you notice that the air this late spring day is pulsing and alive. The birds are starting up...
Message to self and others
Writing is an interior act and behavior. Anyone that engages in this activity understands this. You enter a world of your own and begin whatever it is that you or others might call writing. It is an inside job. Its such an inside job that it’s strange for me to think of it as...
Writing rights
Writing is an interior act and behavior. Anyone that engages in this activity understands this. You enter a world of your own and begin whatever it is that you or others might call writing. It is an inside job. Its such an inside job that it’s strange for me to think of it as...