Help Your Favorite Author

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens well.” ~ Mark Haddon “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~ Ray Bradbury My husband’s parents are visiting, soContinue reading “Help Your Favorite Author”

Humans and Change

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~ Rumi “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~ Rumi “There are no victims, only volunteers.” ~ John Berger I wasContinue reading “Humans and Change”

Week 6 Exercise

“The Assumption that art is a regal robe which falls upon your shoulders magically, bestowed upon you as an heir apparent rather than achieved through slinging the pickax across your shoulder every morning and making off to the mine, was revealed as the greatest hinderance of all to artistic work.” ~ Jane Lazarre, Author ofContinue reading “Week 6 Exercise”

It’s Here!

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.” ~ J. K. Rowling “Finishing booksContinue reading “It’s Here!”