Water Horse Writing Studio

Jim recently received a book in the mail that he said he did not order. It sat on the entry table for days before I picked it up and started reading it. Soon I could not put it down. I thought: well, I am writing a memoir and the cover is pretty, the title evocative, […]

My calendar shows me that yesterday was Rosh Hashana. I get fixated on the words, standing in front of the kitchen “control center” some kind of Pottery Barn product designed to put the fun back in function and look cool doing it. This one is from the original Pottery Barn marketed to middle age people […]

Hello Beloved Readers! It’s my birthday so I thought I would share some of my writing. Here is an excerpt from my memoir Armed With Poetry. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVdHUpqyGdX06AgWYYwlfMCEMWaAlQtHd1x0IC9n0XU/edit?usp=sharing

A wonderful part of having a writing practice is the part where ideas brew deep in my subconscious. I call this stage incubation and it has the rejuvenation qualities of hibernation. I recognize when other writers are incubating because they look happy and attentive. Ideas are proprietary and they are developing at their natural pace. […]

I woke this morning to slow light outlining the large evergreen trees crowning the South-East reach of Penn Cove everything glistened from the dew that had turned to frost. Nature’s majesty all a splendor. I went to bed with a serious doubt that I would not get a good night’s rest and miraculously the next […]

Y- is for Yearning. When I am depressed, I feel a type of loneliness that pervades my body and manifests as yearning. A generalized feeling of neediness that is not specific to any one thing, person, or outcome. I just know that I am dangerously low of critical nourishment. Yearning has an urgent quality that […]

X is for Xenia- Xenia is the concept of hospitality to strangers in Greek Mythology. Depression can feel like a stranger at your door. In Homer’s The Odyssey Xenia is a powerful phenomenon that propels Odysseus through his journey. In ancient Greece the stranger archetype was associated with divine mystery and good luck. In contrast […]

Do you have any wonderlust left? I find wonder is the last thing to go in times of crisis. Do whatever you can to keep wonder alive. Tell stories, play tricks, risk humiliation living out your wacky dreams it is vitally important to your soul’s survival. For me nothing does the trick like good old […]