Creative Stillness
Constant preoccupation with the day-to-day affairs of the world sets up a giant roadblock in the way of our creativity. When we are...
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The Monastic Life
I stand in the doorway of two worlds, foot poised on the threshold of immersion in a community after two months of solitude and...
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I’ve been reading Writing as a Sacred Path while sitting in a hospital room with my son, who had emergency surgery for a...
read moreFinding Your River
The other day I had lunch with a colleague and friend whom I respect greatly. She is involved in all things theater, and she regularly...
read moreGrace & The Horse’s...
Every night, I take Grace, our English Mastiff, for a walk. We usually pass horses in a pasture. One night, when she was a puppy, a...
read moreFinishing the Work: Resistance...
My daughter and I have embarked on a rather ambitious project (I touched on this subject in this week’s Cool Blue eZine, which you...
read moreIn the Belly of the Beast
We’re poised at the brink of a creative breakthrough and we can’t stand it. The prospect of success looms. We freak. Why did we...
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This is . . .the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. ~Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s...
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As I do the work of being more mindful, I embrace the idea that thoughts have energy. So discovering Steven Pressfield’s book...
read moreDo The Work Book Study
If you haven’t read Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work yet, download a copy here and jump in. (The Kindle version is only...
read moreAugust Book Study: Do The Work
We’re kicking off the Blue Read Book Club with Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work on August 1. Click on the book image to...
read moreSmash365 Response: Power
These beacons of light, they did not originate with you, with her, or even with them. To say that I am grateful, though, for the light...
read moreBecoming a Writing Warrior
Last year, I was having a little falling out with my local bookstores. I had noticed a real shift in the selections of books they had...
read moreReverb10 and 750 Words
I regularly visit Shutter Sisters for photo inspiration and just stumbled upon this post about Reverb10. I’m jumping in late,...
read moreA Day of Observation
As I continue to study my daily readings by Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Thich Nhat Hanh (Being Peace), and Julia Cameron (The...
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