Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”
“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …
Category Archives: The Writing Process
Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
Help Me Celebrate a Writing Milestone
I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years. It feels …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
This is the title of a short story I wrote that was published in the Fall Issue of Cobalt Review. …
Blogging and “The Accident of Touching”
These are the last lines of a poem I wrote long ago. The accident of touching is so rare! Sometimes …
The Pieta and 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 …
The Art of Sohan Qadri – Tapping into the Unconscious
When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples …
Wabi Sabi Writing
One of the things I love most about reading is discovering in another’s words something about myself that I had …
“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden
Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …
Writing – A Leap of Faith
Writing, or any creative endeavor, to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk. Faith that …
