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Writing: The Begging Bowl Into Which The Gift Is Drawn

  “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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9 Ways to Connect Your Writing to the Source of Your Creative Abundance

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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On Devotion

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 …

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