As you know, I love to collect quotes. I have leather journals that are packed with them. If you’re like me, you’ll savor these tidbits, realizing that few words can sometimes say more than many. Here are some recent acquisitions. “No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on […]
Braille of Heart
This comes from Mark Nepo’s amazing read-in-a-year (or read-at-your-leisure) book called The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Living the Life You Have. Live in Your Hands “Several years ago, while doing a poetry reading in New York City, I encountered an angry young man who had just seen a woman mugged. […]
Making Sense of the Tsunami
I found a great article (CNN’s Jessica Ravitz’s “Finding Faith Amid Disaster”) that compiled comments from various belief sectors (including ones from a rabbi, a Buddhist priest, a Jesuit priest, one of the directors of the Islamic Society, a Buddhist monk, an atheist, a Buddhist nun, and the president and CEO of the Billy Graham […]
Resistance
I’m reading The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. He talks of Resistance (with a capital R) like it’s something to be reckoned with. You don’t have to be a creative artist to know what he’s talking about. Resistance somehow wheedles its way into everyone’s […]
Creative Dreams
The Squam Art Workshops are retreats for the imagination, set on what looks like an idyllic location–Squam Lake, NH. I’ve never been, but I’m hoping to attend one day. They were started by Elizabeth MacCrellish in 2008, as “an enterprise that is dedicated to infusing art with spirit, and life with all manner of creative […]