Monthly Archives: February 2023

“Nothing bold or magnificent is built form fear.” Paul Sabine What a powerful statement! And yet, in our writing, how hard it is sometimes, to be bold—to break out of our preconceived ideas of how a story should go. Here’s … Continue reading →

Just recently I read 10 words that are encompassed in a loving relationship from the book aptly titled Love by Gregory Gödek. As I scanned them, it occurred to me that they could also be fruitfully applied to our relationship … Continue reading →

Who better to help us celebrate Valentine’s Day than Shakespeare? Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments; love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to removeO, no, it is an ever-fixed  … Continue reading →

“When I run after what I think I want My days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my own place of patience, What I need flows to me, And without any pain.” Rumi “It is … Continue reading →

It Felt Love by Hafiz HowDid the roseEver open its heart And give this worldAll itsBeauty? It felt the encouragement of lightAgainst itsBeing, Otherwise,We all remain Too Frightened

On a lighthearted note, a few job ads you might have seen somewhere:* Three-year old teacher needed for pre-school. Experience preferred. Central Otago Stud Farm requires single young man. Secretarial/Clerical: Excellent word-processing and typing skills. Conscious, creative, and detail-oriented. Man … Continue reading →

“Your difficulties are not obstacles on the path, they are the path.” Ezra Bayda We’ve all been there—had those times in our writing when nothing much seems to be happening. We feel stuck and can’t seem to move forward. Or … Continue reading →

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will … Continue reading →

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”   Frederic Chopin As soon as I read this, I knew I … Continue reading →

A sobering story: John Henry Fabre, a legendary French naturalist, once inducted an unusual and revealing experiment with some processionary caterpillars. These little creatures are known by that name for a singular quality: each one blindly follows the caterpillar in … Continue reading →