enter into something unknown
not realizing what It is going
to ask
or expect.
It sits quietly,
in dark corners
of the mind, hiding
behind shrouds of the soul
waiting
waiting to be approached
waiting to be embraced
waiting to inflict its power
It lies there in that Neverland
between
between sleep and wake
between conscious and unconscious
between sand and shore,
only exposing itself in
brief, unexpected places,
where It is allowed ...
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biting, tearing, ripping grinding,
chewing, gnashing, gnawing, mutilating,
mastication, swallowing,
traveling, sloshing, processing,
it all comes out in the end.
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Why write? Why attempt to put words on a page? What is it that drives a person to such a task that feels so isolating? What right do I have to write?
That's is what is being addressed over at High Calling Blogs currently. A new book club has begun. A few of the High ...
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In light of the realization that it is now April which brings us to National Poetry Month AND add to the fact that I am now going on three weeks with no writing and fighting off whatever bug this is that keeps me coughing and sleeping a paltry two hours a night AND that I ...
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Only artifacts that leave the solitude of their inventor's studios and imaginations can move the horizons of possibility and become the raw material for more culture making. Until an artifact is shared it is not culture. ((Andy Crouch Culture-Making, pg. 40))
He goes on to quote Steve Jobs: Real artists ship
My interpretation: Eric needs to get ...
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If you ever needed to know what they were eating in the 16th. century or when humans began consuming milk for that next big historical novel you are working on, then you need to go here: Food Timeline: Food History and Historic Recipes. I haven't gazed at the recipes yet but hey...Christmas break is ...
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