Spain! In March, my wife and I took a long awaited trip to Spain. It was the infusion of culture, food, landscape, weather I needed to spark my creativity. For my birthday, we hiked to the Hermitage of Sant Joan del Codolar, at the base of Montsant, Sacred Mountain. When I travel, I seek out hermitages. These quiet places, set in …
“Keep sowing your seeds morning and night, for you never know which will grow– perhaps it all will.” –Ecclesiastes When my Grandmother turned 80, she decided to terrace the hill in front of her farmhouse with stonewall. All winter she clipped photos from gardening magazines and sent them to me. Her idea required a wall fifty …
“Go to a new trail where you can hear the whisper of your wild self in the echoes of the forest. Find the tail of something wild and dangerous and worthy of your fear and joy and focus. Live deeply on your own inner guidance.” –Boyd Varty, The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life We live …
“An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that “begging bowl” to which the gift is drawn.” –Lewis Hyde I frequently revisit …
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I want to talk about how you can access your abundant creativity, the source of energy within you, and write from this place of connection? Here are 9 things you can do as a writer to help you commune with your creativity even when you’re not feeling inspired. Get into your body Your body is …
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Hello Everyone! Happy Spring. I hope all is well and that you are feeling the energy of the Earth returning. Despite the pandemic, It has been a creative and productive winter for me. I’ve been on the road, my truck loaded with tripods, cameras, packs, books, maps, luggage, as I drove around The United States …
The paths of our devotions are visible. We wear the stone steps of churches, the wood thresholds to our homes, the grass around our yards. My grandmother ground a path between her back door and barn where, for more than twenty years, she passed every morning before dawn and again at dusk making her pilgrimage …
It happens to all of us sometime in our writing life, we come down with writer’s block. Fortunately, we don’t have to suffer from this common affliction for long. Here are several remedies you can administer to bring about a rapid recovery and get you writing. First, What is Writer’s Block and what is the …
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