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 [...]
Hey…you, writing away, the mind is unfettered, running off, skewing this and that and here it comes, something in your fingers, something kinetic, something physical it’s right there, Hey, just keep writing and get into it, let it loosen and tell the story. That will be what life has got for you. Controlled, craft, real, [...]
I don’t like sharing writing here that’s ill-considered and unformed. The excerpt below is an exception. It’s a recent note from my workbook. I’d seen a picture of T & me from Mother’s Day and was discouraged by how swollen and weighted down l looked. My physical reality had separated from my self-perception. That kind [...]
Image via Wikipedia Recently I’ve been offering guidance to a young woman on Purpose and Structure. These two concepts sound more lofty than they are. When I talk about Purpose, I’m describing the sense of having a thing to do, a reason for moving for one spot to the next. Structure is the sense that [...]
I worked my way out of a 20-year phobia about writing and now I don’t know what’s what. When I write with focus and simplicity, I feel the energy of understanding. I finish the session glad that I wrote something. Then a stretch passes where I don’t get the glad feeling and I don’t write [...]
Edie Sedgwick at her screen test, in 1965, ready for anything and everything did happen. The iconic photos of the early Warhol era were taken by a young man named Billy Name, one-time Warhol paramour and a peripheral member of the rolling party surrounding Warhol The New York Times today has a story about how [...]
I am not a writer. I am not good enough to be a writer. I don’t have what it takes to be a writer. I want to be a writer. I am not an artist. I want to feel like an artist. I can remember what it felt like to try to write, before I [...]
Regardless of where you stand on the proposed health care legislation (if you can figure it out!), the drama around President Obama’s speech tonight was stirring. A young president with an ambitious agenda, standing before a divided Congress, on national television, laying out the purpose and logic of his proposal. The stakes were high, the [...]
Standing on the left side of the Ritz, away from the stage, loosely attached to everything around me, a little drunk, wandering in my mind. The wall vibrates, the heavy bass thump running up my spine, giving me the sensation of moving inches with every down beat. But I’m stable, I’m rooted. I’m sad, you [...]