drmstream[writing]

So much is made of the pain that accom­pa­nies cre­ation. What if the essence of cre­ativ­ity was love? I know myself that as com­pelling as the image is, the real­ity of set­ting out to make a work of the imag­i­na­tion, to tease the fluid ingre­di­ents from your mind and hold them still enough that they can […]

Lis­ten and let your mind go still.

The con­cep­tion of the library in Stock­holm has wormed into my imag­i­na­tion. Then I stum­bled upon a curated sam­pling of book­shelves from Desire to Inspire. Here are two of my favorites. Just like the Stock­holm con­cep­tion, these images cre­ate kine­sis in my imag­i­na­tion. I grew up sur­rounded by books — lit­er­ally, sur­rounded by books, in […]

Every Sun­day, the young man who wanted to be a writer went out early to the cor­ner news­stand to buy The New York Times. He had a rou­tine. Shuf­fle and deal, like a casino hand: sports sec­tion, arts sec­tion, week in review, and last, because it would get the most time and con­sid­er­a­tion, the Book […]

This photo sets my spine tin­gling. It’s hard to explain, but if you have the same reac­tion, you’ll get it. All those books! Worlds and worlds and worlds of imag­i­na­tion, places, things, moments, ideas, facts, sto­ries. Mas­sive, immo­bile, still…but the gan­glia of enchant­ment and dis­cov­ery. You can read about the project at the link below. […]

I’m focused on the Canar­sie Line, and a young girl name Sadie who lived off the Broad­way stop in the block that even­tu­ally became Sternberg Park.

Every writer is a man with one deaf ear and one blind eye, who is pos­sessed by a demon and unteach­able by any­body but him­self; a man who only half hears and half sees the world around him because for half his time he is absorbedly lis­ten­ing at the key­hole to his own Demon, examining […]

An essen­tial step for­ward is the devel­op­ment of a fit­ting order of the day: a divi­sion of the day that gives a rhythm to the day, with a rea­son­ably fixed pat­tern of exer­tion and relax­ation, of spir­i­tual breath­ing in and breath­ing out, of order­ing one’s envi­ron­ment and moments when one is in touch with something […]

So, yes, things were get­ting a lit­tle too seri­ous around here.  For me, at least.  The seri­ous stuff was mak­ing my head bog down, and when that hap­pens it’s time to go grab for the light smile. After all, there are a few of you now.  I mean, an audi­ence, who’s decided to fol­low for a […]

I’m just a sucker for Joey Ramone’s soft voice.  He recorded one of my two all-time favorite cov­ers with It’s a Won­der­ful World (the other is the for­mer Stu­dent Teacher’s Philip Shelley’s unrecorded ver­sion of Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, which I had on a cas­sette tape for the longest time before it sucuumbed […]