“You Know Nothing, Jon Snow.” Part VII of My Halloween Series
This is the last post in my series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. Read Parts I and …
Category Archives: Human Consciousness
Self-Portraits by Mary Oliver and Me
I woke this morning to the scent of the tropics wafting on the breeze. The tailwind of a hurricane blowing …
“Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full,” A Homecoming
I’ll be dipping into the archives from time to time as I work feverishly on my next novel, now tentatively …
On Mackerel & Metaphor: A Poet Unravels the Universe
One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …
A Mist-Washed World of Endless Emerging Forms
Lately I’ve been waking to a mist-washed world, hills and trees dissolving into each other. I’ve long been drawn to …
Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …
Is the Universe a Gift or a Prayer Answered?
I’m sharing some poetry by Paul Wittenberger that struck me with their beauty and depth and the questions they raise …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
Personification & The Interplay Between I and Other
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …
