“on living with no money”

“… it was a grand grand experience. I was a little nervous at times. I remember having a one dollar bill in the top drawer and knowing I would not die as long as that dollar bill was there. And so various things showed up… That was one way of living life, on no money.”  [...]

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Rescuing Spiders

This is what I did this morning. I opened my BRITA water container to pour more water into it, and see what looked like a “fuzz”, so I took a napkin and tried to sweep it out, but the fuzz, was really a balled -up spider, you know, one of those small ones that are [...]

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The Myss Mystic : truth and inspiration.

Tuesday night, i went to see Caroline Myss on the opening leg of her book tour for Defying Gravity: “https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401922902?tag=bluettproduk-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1401922902&adid=0E5PKN5KX9FVKN2NPY49&” Her short lecture, made sense of so many things about our world today, it was almost like receiving a shot of “enlightenment”, truly. Her book, is of course, on the list for my next Borders [...]

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Audrey N. and “Her Fearful Symmetry”

This is a snippet about Audrey Niffenenger’s forthcoming book, “Her Fearful Symmetry.” Had to post it here, as she shares how she came up with the title. HINT: see this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake. William Blake was an extraordinary British poet, painter, and printmaker. One of my first graduate school papers was about this man; his “mystic-ness” [...]

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PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!

CLICK on the BADGE here. Here you are voting for a book I recently published via http://www.blurb.com. If I win, I get to go to http://www.theworkshops.com/ and expand on my photography skills. Sales from this book will also contribute to this art form, as I am in desire of  this : http://www.amazon.com/Canon-50D-Digital-18-200mm-Standard/dp/B001ET6QFO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1248544974&sr=8-3. As majority of [...]

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quote for the day

“Friendship. Montaigne said that friendships are the freest of all relationships. And in the open-ended ambience of the creative life, where there are no sure things and career paths are not marked out and the advice of parents and teachers frequently proves useless, the friend with whom to talk to, to see things, to make [...]

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quote for the day

“It is books, poems, and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge….There must have been little beauty in old stones before Japanese priests and poets began writing about them.” ~Alain de Botton, from “The Architecture of Happiness” (a beautiful , [...]

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post on freedom

 today i typed in a bunch of words on google. i actually was trying to find something specific, but my words were too generic to turn up a link that was actually related to what i was wanting to find. However,  those random words did find an interesting post on a blog, as well as [...]

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