Reframing "stuck" or "uninspired" can be incredibly powerful when we think in terms of fallow periods followed by periods of emergence.
Read MoreI want to live the stories, not just remember them.
Read MoreIsn't it funny how the thing we were so scared of can become our new normal, and then at some point, we will once again feel the winds changing and have to calmly reach for some kind of inner compass?
Read MoreThe world is broken and the world is burning and the world is beautiful. Things are never simple, and yet there's a simplicity in claiming the complexity.
Read MoreIf I can get quieter inside, I'm much more likely be able to listen for some useful questions or simply start writing.
Read MoreThe slightest fissure -- a hairline fracture in a massive piece of rock -- that is the place in a piece of writing where the whole story might break wide open.
Read MoreWe might still be alone in some ways, but alone is not the same as isolated. Alone is not the same as hiding. Alone is not the same as lonely.
Read MoreMaybe this is why I've found creativity difficult to write about. It's everywhere. It's everything.
Read MoreIf I don't keep practicing letting this be enough, nothing will ever be enough.
Read MoreHappy International Women's Day, my friends. Keep being brave. Keep seeing your own beauty -- right there in the mirror.
Read More9. Get drowsy and take a nap, since you didn't sleep well last night. This logic adds up.
Read More“I’ve really let myself go,” your grandmother used to say. And something in you perks up. Something that says, ooooh that. Yes. Let’s do that. Let’s let ourselves go, go and go and go all the way far far from this land of keeping up and not once passing “go.”
Read MoreMeanwhile, it is so crowded here sometimes I cannot find entrance to my own house, my own quiet places, the ones where the writing lives alone.
Read MoreI knew it was coming, like a low rumble in the distance before a storm.
Read MoreAction, emotion, intellect, spirit. To live predominantly in only one of these worlds is to miss so much information.
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