Having finished the first draft of a novel this summer, I promised myself my reward would be a weekend getaway. On a whim I searched for writer’s retreats in Michigan and found the Lost Lake Writers Retreat. It was the perfect way to nurture my writing soul. The Lost Lake Writers Retreat is presented annually…
Poetry
The WordStorm Cover Reveal
At long last, I am releasing a collection of poetry and here is the cover: This was immediately the cover that pulled me in and held me. Allen Ginsberg’s approach to poetry was ‘first thought best thought’ and -in the case of this cover- that really applies. There’s something about that lightning and the purple…
This Voraciousness
(A journal excerpt) This voraciousness is about the insatiable quest for knowledge, the need to know more to learn more to experience more. Though not to experience – experience chews up time. Learn and move on to the next thing, learn more, read more, more, more. This voraciousness is a stumbling block, a thing that…
Creativity and Intuition Are Partners Made In Heaven
Creative intuition is the ability to quickly identify valuable or useful creative ideas without conscious thought. As with all intuition, it is described as instantaneous without any conscious understanding of how the mind created the idea. –Simplicable Intuition is Creative Back when I was first truly starting on my spiritual journey, I worked through Julia…
Be / Learn / Know
All Earth bound, tethered down Souls All flying inside the mind of One, All of You, friends unrecognized and shying away from discovery by repenting treacherous discoveries to be named at a later date. All of us sleeping, and all of us waking using metaphor and symbol, using words, pictures, and songs. All of…
Feeling My Age
I’m not too sure when it started, but recently I’ve been feeling my age. Grey Hair My hair started to truly “go grey” ten or eleven years ago in my forties. There had been strands of grey all along, but I really started to notice the changes then. I started coloring my hair. Sometimes the color…