Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. -Zig Ziglar I lean toward positive thinking, but I also have moments when I let negative thinking win. I like to use affirmations, and since I’ve been using them for so long, it’s a lot easier to apply them to real-life experiences. SayingContinue reading “Right Place Right Time”
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Robert Frost Inspo
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” Robert Frost I haven’t enjoyed writing a poem in a while. Frost has always been a great inspiration when it comes to poetry for me. This quote is just the tippity tip of the iceberg when it comes toContinue reading “Robert Frost Inspo”
Connection
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don’t write about connection that often but I do appreciate the idea that so much of our world is connected. I have been thinking aboutContinue reading “Connection”
The Forces of My Writing
The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide meContinue reading “The Forces of My Writing”
About Reading and Writing
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost My first question, is there such thing as too many surprises? I like surprises, but I also like to know things. I do appreciate a good surprise cry in a story. oh. IContinue reading “About Reading and Writing”
James Baldwin
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin, Notes ofContinue reading “James Baldwin”
George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kindContinue reading “George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers”
Magic Carpet
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon Writing is everything for me. To be honest, writing is everything for me, but that’s too vague to write about. Writing keeps me present, but it’s also a healthyContinue reading “Magic Carpet”
Our Place
*Our Place* On the edge with fish that nip and monsters that drag you so deep you can’t see the light of day.Inside black books never banned because they’re only read by a select few.Beneath the drums that lift and expose you all at once.Teeth, it’s always between themtruth,not hidden but not recognized either.Our placeContinue reading “Our Place”
Today’s a Good Day for Poetry
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou You Are Worthy You’re a moutha sound that moves mefrom silence You’re a foota step that moves meForward You’re a bodya space that reminds meto stand -Saschia
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