active imagination embraced
Found this post via Freshly Pressed http://stoneofdestiny.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/the-mirror/ Among other thought provoking things, the author writes, “And that’s the thing about art: sometimes it is ugly and vulgar and even poorly crafted, but those are not the […]
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” F. Scott Fitzgerald There is an art project that has been on my mind for about 2 years […]
In the background I’ve been busy taking some first steps. Painting! I submitted two paintings, small and possibly quite amateurish, to a fundraiser. Yes, I feel like a fraud. How dare I submit a painting? […]
There are others. Writers that I read and loved, and who I assumed were dead. I remember being shocked when I heard Saul Bellow died. What? He had been alive all that time? There is […]
This afternoon I stood watching while a new student got off the campus shuttle. He was blind and was attempting to navigate the side walk. The thing is that the bus does not always stop […]
Two women walked by me today and one was comforting the other saying, “Happiness is not the absence of problems. You’ll work it out.” The first thought that came to my mind was Happiness is […]
A few months ago I started crocheting at the suggestion of a friend. We’ll crochet at lunch, she said, and then we’ll sell the results. Having learned to crochet many, many years ago, it came […]
Last week I had the good fortune to watch my daughter graduate and to hear a remarkable speech later in that same week by Glen Mazzara. In his speech he quoted the following from the […]
Read this at http://inoveryourhead.net: Well, I have news for you. No matter who you are, I know what your future is. Your future is to grow older, slowly become irrelevant and have outdated views, eventually die and become food for the living. That is […]
Maybe its time to pull out my old Barbara Sher books and refresh my memory on how to deal with Resistance. Resistance is that little voice that pipes up whenever the time to act has […]