Over at The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin has a list of personal commandments, the first of which is "Be Gretchen." If you read the "Be Gretchen" post, you discover something rare: someone reflecting on the sadness of what it means to be yourself. To be your "self" means to choose to not be (and …
Friday Night Lights: Sorry to See You Go…
That football sailing through last-minute skies landing months down the road in the arms of a future worth far more than six points and a ring: a new personal favorite story moment that encapsulates so much of what I loved about Friday Night Lights. I liked the first film, especially (spoilers ahead), the gritty ending. …
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Artistic Desire, Artistic Torment
So my friend wrote a comment on my post entitled "An Artist's Prayer" that read something like this: "How do you know the difference between artistic desire and artistic torment? It seems one and the same some days." Honestly, I'm not sure what she meant in asking the question, but given my mood today, it …
Imagination and Power
As I launch my research into my next writing project, the burden of the world seems heavy. People are both oppressive and oppressed, you know? Life is a puzzle, a problem, a challenge...pick your word that describes the difficulty of things. It's a war, it's a highwire act, it's a race. But it's also …
How Art Serves
Yesterday, I asked about the service art provides, wondering how to articulate it so that it was somewhat analogous to the practicality of giving drink and food and shelter. My own reflection begins, as always, with another question. What sustains human life? If I mean physical life only, then the answer is food and water, …
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