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We Teach Best What We Most Need To Learn.

... next time you have the inspiration to create/write/paint/say something but don’t -- because you feel like you’re not good enough, not worthy enough, not experienced enough, not consistent enough, not perfect enough -- do it anyway.

wisdom

Things I Know Today: I Am Scared And I’m Alive.

I've spent long hours trying to untangle unknown grief, the world's and mine, without ever really understanding that it is not meant to be untangled but explored and experienced. Studied and seen. My heart will be both soothed and scalded, each emotion has a place.

art

The Island Of Misfit Toys.

Jesus once said, “Love your neighbor,” to which someone asked, “Who is my neighbor?” His reply was in the form of a story of a man who was in need and the only person who would help was an outsider.

world

Do Talk To Strangers: Close Encounters Of The Human Kind.

I’ll hole up in a little stone cottage on that isolated Scottish island I mentioned earlier, feeling that I want to be alone… then someone will arrive in a little boat and offer to tell me a story and my resolve flies out the chimney as I fling open the door, sit down, put my elbows on the ...

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To Be A Writer.

We want you to sigh in heart-heavy disbelief, especially at the end of the story when the little child dies or the mother returns, too late, much too late, or both of these things happen on the same damn page, in the same damn paragraph, leaving you distraught, welling up, swimming in a river ...

poetry

The Reasons I Write: Ode To The Pen In My Hand. {poetry}

I am writing because I want to impress the impressive and repress the repression.

art

We Write To Heal.

No matter what the story is from which you need to heal, once it’s written, things are seen from a different perspective.

art

Where Do You Find Time To Write?

Find some way of earning money that is not selling your books until you make it, otherwise your writing becomes stressful and there is pressure to write the next piece that will make a few dollars, as opposed to focusing on your magnum opus every morning and night in between working.

happiness

Finding My Tribe, And Coming Home to Myself.

Don't ever doubt that there is a space for you in this world. That there are people who will love you and value you.

art

On Being A Writer Who Couldn’t Write (Or Read) Well.

I was slow to develop practical skills, including reading and writing; I thought it was because of Cerebral Palsy making it more difficult to exercise fine motor skills, but I’m not sure it was that, really.

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