Monthly Archives: August 2024

Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind?Neither I nor you:But when the leaves hang trembling,The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I:But when the trees bow down their heads,The wind is passing … Continue reading →

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”John … Continue reading →

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right inside it, under … Continue reading →

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How true these words ring and yet how hard it can be to cross the bridge from knowledge and intent to taking … Continue reading →

“There are significant moments in everyone’s day that can make literature.                        That’s what you ought to write about.”   Raymond Carver “When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.”              James Tate One friend to … Continue reading →

“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can, knowing the sentences will have to be revised, knowing the characters’ actions may change. It makes no difference … Continue reading →

“The people I have known on the water – the old timers I knew – eased with the winds.“Do you think they live high stress? No. They lived simple. Their bodies even moved with it. They knew a rhythm and … Continue reading →

From Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: “So you see the imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas. … Continue reading →

Eager to find some words of wisdom that might give us food for thought and fuel for our creative engines, I came across these nuggets and wanted to share them with you: “If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, … Continue reading →

From Seth Godin, author and marketing maven: “The lab or the factory: You work at one, or the other. “To work in the lab is to embrace the idea that what you’re working on might not work. Not to merely … Continue reading →