simple saturday. the courage of simplicity.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. -E.F. Schumacher (Photo from here.)
write-your-own friday.
The sky is a remarkable thing. We watch it, believe that it holds the souls of our dearly beloveds who have departed, look to it for inspiration. We see elephants and magic hats in the clouds of it. This week, take a look at the write-your-own friday instructions, and then …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to Johnny Depp just because I feel like it. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for …
A split intention has too many verbs: I can warn Romeo, I can deceive Othello, search for my father, fight Claudio, tease Ophelia…
I can warn Romeo, I can deceive Othello, search for my father, fight Claudio, tease Ophelia… My business and creative partner, David Robinson, and I are deep in conversation these days about split intentions–what they are, how they show up, what they cost us–and we're sharing some of that ongoing …
poetry wednesday. the social life of water.
The Social Life Of Water -Tony Hoagland All water is a part of other water. Cloud talks to lake; mist speaks quietly to creek. Lake says something back to cloud, and cloud listens. No water is lonely water. All water is a part of other water. River rushes to …
found-art tuesday.
Red Stapler, Graham Gallery. Hastings, Nebraska. I visited Angela Graham's art gallery while in Hastings this past June and fell in love with much I saw there. Including this fantastic, old red stapler I saw on her desk. The heaviness of it, the rounded lines, the color. Stapler as art …
mindful monday : life is incremental
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Life is incremental. It is full of bushwhacking in a dense forest, unable to see the straight line that might lead you from here to there. Maybe there is no straight line. …
stepping stone sunday: fall in the river immediately
Nature hates calculators. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We live very near the Botanical Gardens here in Asheville. It's a short walk to nature, stream, rocks, path, bugs. Tess loves it. One fine spring day, we went there to play on the rocks in the river. I spent a lot of energy …
simple saturday. decluttering. clearing.
Unknot. Read these essays. Don't print them out and add to the clutter. Just read them as they float magically on the screen in front of you. Then take just one action today based on reading them. decluttering zen (I especially like the suggestions to "create a 30-day list" and …
write-your-own friday.
How about a writing exercise every Friday, one that–over time, if you do them every Friday–will leave you with a pile of 89-cent composition books from the Piggly Wiggly full of you. Your story. Your life. Your fears and laughs and thoughts. Something to leave behind, something to re-read when …
