5 Things I’ve Learned About Writing.
This is why writing is so hard. It requires a fearlessness that many people don't want to touch. Writing challenges us to question everything.
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Making the Uncomfortable Comfortable.
Cultivating bliss, joy and pleasure is an equally challenging and courageous act. Learning to actualize those emotions is just as uncomfortable as the others.
Creativity and the Quantum Leap.
And what of humans, with their metaphorical quantum leaps? As much as they like to talk about them, humans tend to prefer their comfortable orbits.
So Say We All, So Said Me.
I spoke instead of regretting letting insecurity win yet another daily battle. I spoke about my dad, alcoholism, prison, sidewalk chalk, spirituality.
Life Is Art, And So Are You.
Life is sublime and devastating, but it doesn't own you. It cannot break you. If you know and accept and love 'you', that should be a comfort, not a terror.
Do the Strange, Sensitive Bird Thing.
We are the bird and the work is the song, and we must sing it while we can. And when this song comes not from a desire to please or to prove or to achieve, but from a profound and earnest longing in the sacred nucleus of us, it is holy work too.
There Are Dragons Below.
My mum had imbued in me an appreciation for the natural world that cannot be taught in any university or through any textbook.
Am I Allowed to Write About That?
My thoughts are an endless stream of unedited narration. My fingers itch to write all the time. I think that’s why I fidget as much as I do.
Following Breadcrumbs: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do.
So if you’re faced with a big decision and you don’t know what direction to go, don’t worry, you don’t need to have it all figured out right now. Just look around. What breadcrumbs do you see?
Exhale Your Truth. Breathe Out What You’re Holding In.
And it’s in this ever unfolding cycle of expression and inspiration that you feel fully connected to your own mind, body and spirit. Only as you breathe both in and out can you be truly alive.