Extolling, and embodying, the virtues of creativity, and creative writing, to save the world. (Or, at least, myself.)
Blue Door What’s a simple pleasure in life that brings you joy? Reading and writing poetry in the sun on a park bench or at a coffee shop. Whispers in the sunshine... the crinkling of the leaves, shadows falling from the trees, flowers blooming with the breeze... I'm sitting, steady... Hopeful, too. Memorial Park
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? Been there, done that.
"And we, who have always thought of happiness as rising, would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us whenever a happy thing falls." - Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy" When they sit in silence, they sit with you...When they lay in thought, they lay with you…When they breathe in deeply, they breathe … Continue reading “On Rilke, on solitude” (redux…)
A new spot Several years ago, I was reading Letters to a Young Poet, a collection of letters from Ranier Maria Rilke to a young cadet in the Austrian army who aspired to write poetry like Rilke. The letters became as much a treatise on life as writing and have long since been an inspiration … Continue reading Serendipity with Rilke
Observations from the Brink 