Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. Ralph Waldo Emerson There’s a purpose to this great thing that the Internet has spawned beyond the creation of commerce engines, marketing campaigns and wealth beyond our wildest imagination. The world has become too large, genius too widely distributed, stories too important and creativity [...]
I want to assure you with all earnestness that no writing is a waste of time — no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding. I know that. Even if I knew [...]
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a [...]
In a Dark Time In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood– A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What’s [...]
How can I possibly articulate the flame inside me? Can it ever relate to the world outside? And if so, is it that I cannot help but take a step, yet will never make a correct one? excerpted from the drmstream Facebook page I could have asked this question once. My voice would have cracked, [...]
Each place you go, don’t look for the thing that is different. Look for the thing that is the same. That is your starting point, the anchor. I can share the experience. We aren’t alone. But we can’t find each other inside all the noise. We have to look out into the quiet, strip the [...]
When you felt the red fire Of the forge, as it played, Did you feel, Too, my swordsman’s desire Run like blood on your blade And blue steel? A wonderful set of broadsides from turn of the century Ireland, illustrated by the artist Jack B. Yeats. Each edition was just 300 copies. Art speaks to [...]
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift This sketch is easy to pass over. It doesn’t conform to our standards of baby memorabilia…of photographs in a little brag book or on our digital phone, moments of “look here,” “isn’t that cute,” “ooh” and “ahh.” The sketch is an afterthought, [...]
This is from a fascinating set of illustrations kept in Moleskin notebooks. A personal imaginarium. When I look at them closely, I try to imagine what it would be like to draw one small section, then move to the other, an idle walk into the imagination turning into a full-blown dreamscape. A full-set can be [...]
The clues are everywhere, but it isn’t until you see the title that the entire meaning becomes clear. I stumbled across these paintings because I follow the artist on Twitter. Her handle is @julia_hensley. I don’t follow her because she’s an artist; a writer that I follow follows her and I added her as I [...]