Today I'm thinking that DRIVE - that is, love + hunger + determination - is the one essential ingredient to mastering an art and making a contribution. Drive is far more important than what we call "talent." I believe that we all come with a kind of "starting kit." Some people get great ears [...]
When you have been pursuing your passion for a long time - decades, perhaps - the present moment becomes more and more like a piece of intricate music. The more you keep going, the more colors, motifs, layers, associations, allusions, echoes, and harmonies get woven into the song. Let me give you an example of [...]
If it makes you feel worried, small, powerless, or in any way LESS (hopeful, eager, strong, passionate), it's NOT FOR YOU. If it makes you feel strong, eager, alive, expanded, empowered, or MORE yourself, it's FOR YOU. This goes for advice - solicited or unsolicited, comments, thoughts, ideas, marketing, opportunities and possibilities, and anything else [...]
It's the most natural thing in the world. There are some who will tell you that you can only do it when you're well-rested, when your throat is "open," when the Moon is in Venus and the Lark hangs on the Eastern Star... They will also tell you that your voice is "delicate," that it [...]
"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." ---Albert Einstein There is food and drink here for artists and creators. Match the frequency of [...]
I love April because although we can celebrate and enjoy poetry all year, we dedicate EXTRA love and attention to poetry this month. And that makes me happy! As always, I'm celebrating by writing a poem each day. This year, for the first time ever, I'm nine for nine - meaning, that I haven't yet [...]
Today, two suggestions and one story. Once upon a time, there was a girl who read constantly. She laid on her belly, propped up on her elbows, reading book after book as the afternoons of her youth flew by. As a young adult, she read even more, adding scholarly articles and essays to the fiction [...]
