“This instrument can teach. it can illuminate, and yes, it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it toward those ends.” ~ Edward R. Morrow speaking about television I’m a big TV and movie nerd. It’s not that I know everything about the latestContinue reading “TV Lessons”
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Potent Daydreaming
“A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.” ~ W.H. Auden “Let’s detox our cluttered academic brain. That’s what the poet does. People callContinue reading “Potent Daydreaming”
The Working Artist
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; whoContinue reading “The Working Artist”
Louis L’Amour and Omega Men
“I think of myself … as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.” ~ Louis L’Amour “If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category.Continue reading “Louis L’Amour and Omega Men”
Eye of the Storm
“May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese curse “The power of creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quickly you hardly catch it going.”Continue reading “Eye of the Storm”
Sage Woman Chronicles 