“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The inexpressible. What is it that can’t be expressed? What is it that stays put so that you may live on as if it never happened? That’s what I want to know. What buried itself deep into those folds that youContinue reading “The Inexpressible”
Category Archives: on writing
Write Your Story
“If you want to change the world, write your story. If you want to heal the world, share it.” – Unknown And that’s exactly what I do. Life can make you feel helpless. It can make you feel like browbeating is your only option. But the truth is the arts are always and will alwaysContinue reading “Write Your Story”
Where Art Grows
I like your art. I might not have seen it, but there’s a real good chance that I like it. I’d rather see it than anything else. Too much art dies with the people who were too scared to share. It could be the one thing that finally inspires a great mind to change theContinue reading “Where Art Grows”
You Are the Revolution
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” Alice Walker You writing today is the revolution. Don’t make the end goal when the revolution starts. You stepping into your dreams and desires is the revolution! They really have you out here thinking that you have to put your dreams and desiresContinue reading “You Are the Revolution”
Artistic Dreams
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” -Vincent Van Gogh Now this I can relate to. I wasn’t expecting to find anything really interesting tonight, but here it is. An amazing artist is guiding me back to my place in this world. Not that I only have one place! I am aContinue reading “Artistic Dreams”
I Have Stood on the Peaky Mountain
“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” -Zora Neale Hurston I was trying to think of Ms. Hurston’s name this weekend at a writing group I attend. I had to lookContinue reading “I Have Stood on the Peaky Mountain”
My Writing Friends
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. -E.B. White I really like this quote. Seriously, my little group of writing rebels lights up my life. Rebels because they write against all odds. They write in the middle of the night and early morning. After work, thinkingContinue reading “My Writing Friends”
Make Up a Story
“Make up a story… For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.” – ToniContinue reading “Make Up a Story”
The Purge
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway I’m at the point in my editing process where I’m deleting and getting right to the point. I know the story. Now, to get rid of all the parts that motivatedContinue reading “The Purge”
If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?
“Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed.” -UrsulaContinue reading “If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?”
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