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Georgia
I am thinking about Georgia O’Keefe and how she lived her life. How people never really understood her and how in the end it didn’t matter. She seemed tortured by the need to illuminate her inner visions in relationship to existence as it stands. She endured the process and established a new order of art…
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What versus Why
I once had a psychologist ask me “What is your deal with poetry?” If I didn’t know that he also had a thing for poetry I might have taken offense. I have thought of this periodically over the years since he asked and feel I could dissect my personal history and come up with a…
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Tranquility
I am taking a class to become a meditation facilitator. The approach is a type of effortless becoming, an unfolding if you will of one’s inherent gifts. It seems to rely on the assumption and understanding of one’s own basic goodness and self-worth. The leaders gently and repeatedly invite us to bring this understanding and…
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It ate him whole –
I’ve been writing in restaurants and cafes for years. Mostly I’m there for the clean table, to spread out my journal, books, pen, restroom, and access to food when I get hungry. I find I can depend on being left alone to write for as much time as I usually need, an hour or two,…
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Stumbling through today
While researching inspirations for my new business venture. I came across this quote by my beloved teacher Natalie Goldberg I have not seen before. I don’t know the context in which she wrote or said it but I’ll take it! It is part of a collection on a website for writers who run. Check it…
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Divine Distraction Disguised as the Gift of Artistic Lineage.
When I was a little girl I used to call a phone number that had a new recorded story everyday. It was a lifeline for me. I struggled with lonlienss and when a new story became available I found renewed strength and hope. I don’t know how I found the phone number to call or…
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Thus and Such Industries, A message from my sponsor.
Are you looking for a remedy for the loneliness that inevitably comes with living a creative life? Thus and Such Industries might have the solution. Thus and Such Industries is the complementation* of your friends Angie and Jim Alkove and their work to bring effectiveness and style to the daily. I hosted a neighborhood writing…
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It happens very slowly, then all at once.
Darlings, We all have a beauty foot and and power foot. I am not sure which one got injured a couple of weeks ago in Costa Rica but I have had to strengthen my power foot since then in order to stand up and move, slowly, into this new year. I’ve had to ask for…
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