Art & Love
I read the other day that Art and Love both are vehicles for transformation. And this is why I agree: To create art is one thing but to show art… Read more Art & Love →
Half Way
The month of November proved productive for me, all the way to Thanksgiving. I joined the National November Writing Month and wrote about 35,000 words. Then the holidays got in… Read more Half Way →
Writing with Patience
Yesterday I read old journals from the 90’s. At that time, my partner and I owned a French dinner restaurant and our three children were then teens and one pre-teen.… Read more Writing with Patience →
ALDHAVEN
having fun with creating a cover for a few scenes from my novel building my novel and my characters balancing and interacting
ENGAGE Art Fair
Painted Fairytale Characters and Imagined Fictional Characters
Listening & Reading
these days i listen and read a lot: i listen to david whyte read his poem santiago. https://vimeo.com/251995359 i read your duck is my duck by deborah eisenberg. https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/your-duck-is-my-duck/ i listen to david bowie’s… Read more Listening & Reading →
It is Winter
Even in California it feels like winter. Heavy rains, blistering winds, surf advisory, and short days. I sleep more. I eat more. I stay inside. My home is my hide… Read more It is Winter →
Favorite Quote
“Mindfulness accepts as its focus of inquiry whatever arises in one’s field of awareness, no matter how disturbing or painful it might be. One neither seeks nor expects to find some greater truth lurking behind the veil of appearances. What appears and how you respond to it: that alone is what matters.” — Stephen Batchelor, Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist
Writing is Work
I’m still doing it! Writing between 1000 and 2000 words each day. So far, almost 20,000 words and the goal is 50,000 by November 30. I plan to make it but definitely, I’ll have more words written than ever before on my novel: Aldhaven, a love story. What excites me is this: I dropped the idea of writing along a plot line in sequential order. Didn’t work for me. Now, I write in segments. I let my characters meet up in different situations and have them communicate to see what… Read more Writing is Work →
