This Halloween I transformed into one of my literary heroes. It didn't take much to make myself over in his familiar image - a deerstalker hat and a pipe purchased online and a wonderful vintage Donegal tweed cloak. The inside, though: that's the real magic. I'm not nearly as smart as Sherlock but I do [...]
INTRODUCING: My brand new book and audio-book, A November Visit. I hope you enjoy this introduction, a small taster of the feast of "Novemberish" delights awaiting you in the book. Thank you for taking it in!
Questions are an indispensable guide in my life. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Where or in what moments do I feel most alive? Noticing this is an act of great self-loyalty. It's helpful to track your interests, eagerness, and spark and notice what's changing and what new things are hoving into view. Sometimes [...]
When I was in high school, I fell in love with the writing of Annie Dillard. I’d never read anything like her before, this combination of poetic prose and personal narrative imbued with the fervent nature-love of Thoreau and the spiritual depth and yearning of a medieval mystic. I studied her books and saw in [...]
I found a scribbled note to myself that contains a compact, effective, and encouraging philosophy. I hope it's helpful to you!
Have you ever had this experience in a work context? You’re loving, you’re enthusiastic, you’re positive and eager to help. In response, you are dismissed as a puppy, as a child, as toothless. You are subjected to condescension and disregard. Only when this becomes impossible to ignore do you reveal your incisors, and then [...]
You'll hear about the origin of this poem in the video and in the text below it. But for you dear readers of this blog, may I add two things: Living according to the Tao of Moi does not make you selfish. It makes you honest and honesty always serves everyone best. I'm wearing my [...]
(just found this on one of my many scraps of paper on which I capture uncategorized thoughts in the moment) True impoverishment is not being able to feel love, to be moved by beauty, to be roused in curiosity and eagerness to learn, to laugh for sheer amusement and delight (without a target), to give [...]
Do you ever have a day like this - when you get up late, breakfast late, lounge about doing not much, remain in your nightclothes far into the day with a feeling of delighted, shameful langour, do a puzzle, write a few things, eat irregular meals (by which I mean snack on one thing and [...]
WELCOME, my friends, to the fifth and final week of our April Poetry Celebration! This week, we hear one last round of wonderful poems from our community with many answering last week's Spark of "translation," we enjoy a bit of Q & A with Grace and Zsuzsanna from Jumping Fox Design, I share a poem [...]
