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L- Looking back…but do I want to know what was back there?

April 14, 2025

Funny, I first read this book in 2014 and somehow, this section went straight over my head. Maybe then, ten …

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K- Keeping margins in life

April 12, 2025

K- (i) knew now one who was a creative professional, and neither did my parents. Novelists only existed in movies …

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J – Judge, or Judge not

April 11, 2025

Judge a man by his questions rather then by his answers. Voltare On the other hand, we have Ted Lasso, …

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I – In the very end…

April 11, 2025

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not their poets.” Jonas Mekas  I dare …

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H- He became a poet

April 9, 2025

He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, as …

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G- Grace to be an acolyte.

April 9, 2025

G- Grace to be an acolyte, a servant of art, is the best prayer an artist can offer. The grace …

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F- Follow your passion? Or maybe something else?

April 7, 2025

Following our curiosity, instead of our passion, is the real key to an interesting and creative life. Andrew Merle, Why …

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It’s D-day, because I am a rule follower.

April 4, 2025

Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It’s also the mark of …

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C is for cookie and that’s good enough for me

April 3, 2025

Ok seriously now. “The chief privilege of writing memoir, it seems to me, is the opportunity to go back and …

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This post brought to you by the letter A

April 1, 2025

A – A story is a letter that the author writes to himself to tell himself things he would be …

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