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”
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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”
on writing
We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher level of inner guidanceContinue reading “on writing”
the friar patch 