writing inspiration

The Journey

I discovered this piece by poet and philosopher David Whyte in BrainPickings.org‘s weekly e-newsletter. Whyte’s words sing to my healing heart. Above the mountains the geese turn into the light again Painting their black silhouettes on an open sky. Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside […]

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Pay attention to everything

Writing memoir is a way to figure out who you used to be and how you got to be who you are. Still, as Raymond Carver once said, “What good is insight? It only makes things worse.” Why dredge up a lot of dusty memories? Why remind yourself that the old days will never come […]

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