"At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then--and only then--it is handed to you." --Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Odd isn't it, that there is work …
The Feral Work in the Next Room
Annie Dillard's The Writing Life. I should have read it back in February, when I first began approaching my current project. Funny thing is, the image she describes in the following paragraph is one I have kept in the back of my mind for years. A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts …
The iPad Dilemma – Brilliant Distraction
So I love my iPad, and wonder if I should give it away. I've rejected that option, so I've got to come at the management of the onslaught of information (really terrific and entertaining information) in a new way. Between Flipboard's visual delivery of Twitter and Facebook feeds, not to mention the curated brilliance of …
Jump Starting the Words Again…
Okay. Just so you know, the few of you that come around and poke your awareness into my world, I have to begin just putting words down again. No structure. No editing. Just words. I've come to a bit of a frozen place, and I have to break out of it, so here …
You as Parable
If folks a thousand years from now preach sermons on your life, what would they walk away with... Those are the opening lyrics to a song I wrote several years ago. My reading yesterday in IMAGE journal reminded me of it by way of an interview with Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of Old Testament studies …
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