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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In books, writers on 15 January 2008 with no comments

If there is anything to know about me, it is that I like for things to be circular, to start somewhere and end somewhere in a roundish sort of way. I think of many things that way and have devised a philosophy regarding the circular nature of things all my own (or maybe I […]

Mudita and the Pursuit of Happiness

In Events, culture, personal, philosophy, writers on 5 January 2008 with 1 comment

This past week I met a buddhist writer and the founder of a meditation center, named James Baraz. We talked casually about writing with all the distractions from modern technology and he encouraged me to come to a talk he was giving at the NY Insight Center about “Awakening Joy” a course that he […]

The Great God Brown

In writers on 26 December 2007 with no comments

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and song and laughter?Why am I afraid to live, I who love lifeand the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sea and sky?Why am I afraid to love, I who love?Why am I afraid, I who am not afraid?Why […]

Excerpt from Doris Lessing Nobel Prize Speach

In writers on 26 December 2007 with no comments

A Hunger For Books. Posted on Guardian:
What has happened to us is an amazing invention - computers and the internet and TV. It is a revolution. This is not the first revolution the human race has dealt with. The printing revolution, which did not take place in a matter of a few decades, but took […]

Resolutions for Writers

In Writing, blogs, writers on 2 December 2007 with 1 comment

I’m tired, its late, and I’ve not much to say (it seems that no one really does much on the internet on Sunday anyhow). What I do have, after going through my weekly Sunday evening Google reader clean out is a few things that I found, that I’d like to share or direct you […]

Rilke Week

In blogs, poetry, writers on 24 October 2007 with no comments

It’s Rainer Marie Rilke Week at Chekov’s Mistress. Which is great because I love Rilk. Letters to a Young Poet moved me as a young writer and still to this day I can read it each time like its the first. There are so many times in my life when the passages have been able […]

Why Write?

In Writing, blogs, writers on 20 October 2007 with no comments

I’m finally getting through some of my google reader blogs, now that its up to 1,000+ (yes and it is actually 6am in the morning). I cam across an post from Neil Gaiman (yes THAT Neil Gaiman) about writing that I instantly loved:
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the […]