He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish Politician, there is a dedicated leader… Teach him for every enemy there is a friend, Steer him away from envy, if […]
Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?, Reading Tagged: What I'm Reading
Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?
Matsuo Basho. Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?, Poetry Tagged: Cherry Blossoms, Haiku, Poetry, Portland, Spring
John B Keane Filed under: Verbatim
WB Yeats Filed under: Verbatim
I’ve been writing a story, and now it’s finished. And, now it’s finished, I’ll be around a bit more. But I have another idea brewing, so maybe just a little bit more. (Thank you to those lovely people who noticed it had been a while.) Filed under: My Writing Life, The Short Story, Writing
When you feel like, and call yourself, a writer but you don’t make your living from it, how do you keep your writing-self tuned in and engaged during those hours when you’re necessarily focussed on your pays-the-bills-job? My job as a lowly processing assistant at a mortgage company keeps me busy busy — but with […]
Say the word Love beneath your breath. Say it at those people you think need it the most. Vagrants and hustlers and young men sleeping under bridges and old men blowing on their hands and women in bus shelters at 6am. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. The man on a bench by the river […]
From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?, Reading, Verbatim Tagged: Murakami, Philosophy, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle