“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” – Kris Kristofferson It starts out as a search for yourself, a part-time occupation giving the journey definition and greater meaning. At least it did for me. It took a few years to determine that primary pursuit, but once I did, it seemed writing was what would lead me to myself,
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“You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart–your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it’s why you were born.” – Anne Lamott What terrifies you? It can seem
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So there’s an image I’ve wanted to explore for a while. (It’s not this one, though I like it…) I call the image “the fear box.” (Not that picture. The mental image I have. Clear on that?) It’s made of a type of protective, soft material, but very strong. We’re all raised in this sort of cage, and it’s
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Let us build for the years we shall not see. – Sir Henry John Newbold I saw it in her eyes first, what I expected to see. That flash. “No, Dad. That’s wrong.” Of course, I can’t blame her. I’d told the story “right” as many times as any story I’ve ever told. And I probably should have written this story down
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“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.” – Thomas Merton All art, writing included, is built on ideas. The size of those ideas can’t be measured,
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