L- Looking back…but do I want to know what was back there?
Funny, I first read this book in 2014 and somehow, this section went straight over my head. Maybe then, ten …
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K- Keeping margins in life
K- (i) knew now one who was a creative professional, and neither did my parents. Novelists only existed in movies …
J – Judge, or Judge not
Judge a man by his questions rather then by his answers. Voltare On the other hand, we have Ted Lasso, …
I – In the very end…
“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not their poets.” Jonas Mekas I dare …
H- He became a poet
He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, as …
G- Grace to be an acolyte.
G- Grace to be an acolyte, a servant of art, is the best prayer an artist can offer. The grace …
F- Follow your passion? Or maybe something else?
Following our curiosity, instead of our passion, is the real key to an interesting and creative life. Andrew Merle, Why …
It’s D-day, because I am a rule follower.
Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It’s also the mark of …
C is for cookie and that’s good enough for me
Ok seriously now. “The chief privilege of writing memoir, it seems to me, is the opportunity to go back and …
This post brought to you by the letter A
A – A story is a letter that the author writes to himself to tell himself things he would be …
Stories from the Dinner Table 