Extolling, and embodying, the virtues of creativity, and creative writing, to save the world. (Or, at least, myself.)
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
"Cast Away" The movie "Cast Away" was on television today. The movie has special significance for me because I have, before and now, felt cast away in life. The ending is significant because what came before is now past but there's opportunity to move ahead into the future and who knows where that road will … Continue reading Cast Away
Adam I was an "economics" major in college, along with anthropology. Not that I've asked around, but I am aware of, potentially, at least ONE other person with this rather ODD combination of ACADEMIC "interests." ODD, I'm saying, because whereas "economics," at least in our globally-"Westernized" conception, is identified with Adam Smith, capitalism, free markets, … Continue reading “Economics”
Black Statue of Liberty. Something I wrote a LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG......... time ago, but never posted. But AM now. “Fight For It.” My favorite song on the Hamilton soundtrack is “Wait For It.” Every time I listen to the soundtrack I can’t get the song out of my head, except that when I hear it in my head … Continue reading “Fight for It”
Actual photo taken by me. One of two places of any "significance" I've ever been, unless, of course, you count them all. Yesterday my soul slipped into the sea, It buoyed there a while and cried for you and me. That soulless surface scarred, it dredged the deepest dream, it swelled the strangest sigh... Yesterday … Continue reading On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association”
"The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer, sense and non-sense, meaning and futility, male and female, being and non-being, Light and darkness, void and full. Beyond all duality, or non-duality, beyond and beyond. Disincarnation. I breathe again." "Dis" … Continue reading “Dis” Incarnation.
Is what I am on.
Like I said.
This post might be in vain, but it is not vain. To speak our minds is not vain. To be silent is not in vain. When we speak with our hearts, we speak with our intention and, that is... To sing.
Observations from the Brink 