Tag Archives: Reading
The Lies That Speak of Truth
“And if at whiles the bubble, blown too thin, Seem nigh on bursting,—if you nearly see The real world through the false,—what do you see? Is the old so ruined? You find you’re in a flock O’ the youthful, earnest, passionate—genius, beauty, Rank and wealth also, if you care for these: And all depose theirContinue reading “The Lies That Speak of Truth”
HONEST JOURNALS
A help to me in working things out has been to keep an honest – as honest as the human being can be – unpublishable journal. Granted, much of my non-fiction work is lifted directly from my journals, but what I use is only a small fraction of these numerous, bulky volumes. If I canContinue reading “HONEST JOURNALS”
Possibility
On Seeking
On Writing
WE ARE REQUIRED TO SERVE THE GIFT I listen to my stories; they are given to me, but they don’t come without a price. We do have to pay, with hours of work that ends up in the wastepaper basket, with intense loneliness, with a vulnerability that often causes us to be hurt. And I’mContinue reading “On Writing”
Been There; Done That
Meaning
Just Because
Ease
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff. — Robert Eliot, writer
the friar patch 