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Poetry Friday: Re-Stoking the Fire (opens the original)
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Hi Friends,I got bored this week and I want to talk about it.I’ve been working on a course, a signature piece, something I’m genuinely excited about. It’s been a month or so of daily work. You know that hyper-fixation flow mode where you just show up and just do the thing and forget to eat. Well, I was about 75% ish done when the “I’m bored” and the what-the-hell-are-you-doing voice started up.Oh… I know this voice. But DAMN I thought I’d make it all the way through this freaking amazing project
Friday Poetry: Proof of Survival (opens the original)
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This is embarrassing but… I used to think that everyone else gets to be behind or upset or [insert negative emotion here] but not me.I don’t know when I made that rule but I have a feeling it’s been there for a while. Then when things got a little too much to handle in the performance of “not behind”, I would simply pull the worn out rug over that thing and pretend it did not exist as a lump in the middle of the room.One of those lumps was my finances. That pile sat in the middle of the room for
Friday Poetry: i am jealous (opens the original)
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Hi friends, This week I wrote your pep talk a little differently. It’s a bit of a nondenominational sermon for the creative warriors. May this motivate and inspire. I.This week I had three dreams over three nights, two nightmares and a vision like dream, and I don’t believe that’s coincidence. I’ve trained myself over the years to remember my dreams the way some people train a muscle. I find dreams to be one of the best ways to see what’s up in my own subconscious and because I’ve been doing thi
Friday Poetry: Everyone Loves Flowers (opens the original)
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I feel free. Well, mostly. It took me years of pain and heartache and resolve and hindsight that looked a lot like turning the knife on myself. I’ve gotten to a point where I feel grounded and at least fairly sure in the decisions I’ve make for myself. Not that they aren’t hard decisions, and not that things from outside didn’t or haven’t had a hand in making those decisions too. But the point is: with freedom comes great responsibility. Isn’t that what they say? Freedom is one of the things I v
Friday Poetry: Never Figured Out (opens the original)
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Hi friends,I wanna talk about the Creative Gap (or The Gap as Ira Glass coined it) and how that may be keeping you from moving forward with confidence in your own art. I feel like I may beat this particular subject to death, but stick with me once more.“The Gap” was a 2009 recorded interview on Ira Glass’s This American Life where he explains that beginners struggle BECAUSE of their good taste which usually outpaces their current skill level.
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