Do you ever have days you feel stuck, barely able to move your feet, anxious then anxious about being anxious about what you have to do, need to do, should do—so overwhelmed you can’t begin anything at all. As much as this applies to ordinary, everyday, mundane life, I think it may especially apply to… Read More Week 42: leaping
I don’t necessarily like new year’s resolutions; goals sound a little better. Are you setting any goals for yourself this year? I’m setting at least one. One recent night while trying to fall asleep, it came to me: Write one reflection every week for a year. If you don’t start right now, you never will.… Read More Week 1: creative tension
by Anthony Martin “To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.” – Madeleine L’Engle On a hill overlooking a wide meadow next door to the house where I grew up is an oak tree with a few rotting boards nailed into its trunk. These misaligned memorials… Read More “On Creating” – Part 2: worth doing (badly)
by Nielsen Greiner “We must work every day, whether we feel like it or not, otherwise when it comes time to get out of the way and listen to the work, we will not be able to heed it.” – Madeleine L’Engle Procrastination. Excuses. Apathy. Passivity. Lack of time. No inspiration. These are… Read More “On Creating” – Part 1: some thing
a kingdom built of seeds 