I’m not a novelist, and don’t really have any current plans to be one. Songs and poems are my preferred (very short) forms. I am, however, someone who loves writing and writers and I admire the spirit of everyone who chooses to spend November slaving over a keyboard. As such, I always get a little [...]
You may have noticed it’s been…eerily silent around here.
That’s because I’m this month’s Guest Blogger over at Spring!
We’re talking about Creativity for the whole month of October, so I’ve been posting once a week with my thoughts and some insight into my personal creative life. If you’d like to check out my posts, you can [...]
Many of you were asking me how my week long “reboot” experiment went. In short, it was wonderful. Hard and a bit scary at times? Definitely. Worth it? Absolutely. This coincided with the first week of The Shed Project, which was perfect timing. I regretted not being able to dive right into the forums [...]
Song for Autumn
Mary Oliver
In the deep fall
don’t you imagine the leaves think how
comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of air and the endless
freshets of wind? And don’t you think
the trees themselves, especially those with mossy,
warm caves, begin to think
of the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleep
inside [...]
I’ve been suffering from a case of input overload lately.
With a combination of blogs and news sites, watching a lot of online videos and (God bless it) Netflix, listening to audiobooks and podcasts… I have come down with a classic case of what Julia Cameron calls “over-reading”. There is so much information coming at me [...]
A couple of weeks ago I did a half-hour interview with Heather from the show “Lyrical Venus” at KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa. KRUU is a radio station that is volunteer-run and solar powered. How cool is that?!
We talked about the writing process, the new album, this blog, and songwriting in general. I had such a [...]
Today’s Friday Poetry is one of my own.
As I mentioned in a previous post, this sharing of poetry is still vulnerable, risky territory for me.
It’s easy to shy away from it, but I’d rather not. This poem in particular is one that I waffled on publishing here. It has a special place in my heart, [...]
My first guest post ever is up at When I Grow Up!
Please go check it out.
Starving Artist? Or Satiated Creator?
In honor of our new Poet Laureate in the United States, I wanted to post a poem by W.S. Merwin.
Merwin has lived in Hawaii since 1976, and practices Buddhism and Environmentalism with equal dedication.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone. Perhaps go out on a walk and identify some trees.
Native Trees
by W. S. Merwin
Neither my father [...]
Something really wonderful has been happening to me since I decided to sign up for the 21*5*800 project. Through the community and the daily practices of yoga & writing, I have been surprising myself. I’ve been writing different types of things and revisiting long lost creative pursuits. I even made a drawing, which is [...]
