Little Losses
I have been thinking about all of the little losses we rack up on the journey of life. How many little hits we take to the soul. And how these little dings and hits can sometimes harden us. They can…
Kelli Anna
A Lifetime of Words
I write poetry because I have never felt like I had the patience to write a novel. Poetry is a quick one off which I usually barely even edit. That’s not a brag. It’s a declaration of my laziness when…
A Collage of Words and Ideas
{ an essay of cut and pasted interconnected yet separate writings } Part I Anxiety has been my default setting for most of my life. It has colored every single moment, day, and memory for as long as I can…
Sideways Days
I have not abandoned my relatively brand new blog. It’s just that there are days that turn everything on its head. Days that slip sideways and by evening the world is tilted a little differently than it was that morning.…
Emerging
After spending the last two years being (overly) cautious, we finally emerged from beneath our masks today. While we had gone to the store, the mall, the doctor, and done things outside, we had not really done anything indoors that…
So I Read This Article
have subscribed to the Austin Kleon newsletter for years and I never fail to learn something from each offering. This week there was a link to an article about Dagny Carlsson who started blogging at 99 years old and kept…
Ideas Many of Us Hold that I Invite you to Challenge
Your writing/art is too basic, immature, pedestrian You are not a real artist No one cares or will see what you create What is the point of art?Don’t you have better ways to spend your time? You write/create the same…
On The Perils of Advice
Read all the booklists you want. Take all the suggestions, keep up to date on what’s on the bestseller lists – but in the end, leave room for what you enjoy. If a book isn’t speaking to you, no matter…
Routines and Losing Our Way
A weeks old Austin Kleon newsletter I had sitting in my inbox has me thinking about routines. Not the getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed type routines, but routines for creativity and happiness. Along with all of the daily must-dos,…
Hermiting
I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. ~ Alan Watts Winter doesn’t seem to want to loosen its grip…