finding fierce

Last week I sat down and started making a list of goals. I rarely do this but need to do this. Setting goals provides a focus, a framework for action. I’ve learned the goals have to be specific and should be broken down into steps. Saying “I want to write a novel” is not enough […]

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painted sky

This morning a most incredible painted sky full or glowing pink and orange. The photo can’t duplicate this but it is a marker for this day, a reminder of a sigh released. I am part way through some small paintings and moving myself in the direction of unfinished stories with the intention of finishing. Though […]

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life comes in

from a work in progress: from calloused hands, garden dirt and shoeless feet can come a clean lightness of being from hands hardened in morning light shaping intention into new diameters and feet eased by ocean’s lap can come a blue sense undone i wait here to feel it happen to unravel two years of […]

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thoughts on the beach

from work in progress on Gordon’s Beach the stones lie like messages on the beach having crept or swam their way up the sand to leave songlines pieces of blank verse and small philosophy for those who care to read

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more writing required

I’ve been incubating but not writing. In the meantime, to get me in a creative zone, I have been prepping new surfaces for mixed media. They are the equivalent of a winter wonderland, white, flat, unbroken and ready for a mark. Fenna, on the other hand, has been writing and writing. She has started her […]

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