It’s no mistake that several of my posts in the last week have been about waiting and playing. Can you tell ideas are percolating? It’s true. They have to simmer a while before I can put an outline down…then put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard). I’m still stuck on bits of that […]
Slow Down: Adult At Play
Try this on for size. Carl Honore’s article “In Praise of Slow Thinking” (Huffington Post, October 23, 2009). Google allows their employees to devote 20 percent of their time to personal projects. For this reason: “Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is […]
A Gentle, Lyrical Touch
I tried to explain to my husband way-back-when that I was a goody two shoes when I was young, and by that I don’t mean I was perfect (I was a bossy tattletale, if you must know!). I mean that the way I perceived the world was drastically different than my friends’, as must be […]
Quietly, In the New Life
“Oceans” by Juan Ramon Jimenez I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing . . . Silence . . . Waves . . . —- Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life? […]
