Cultivating compassion, creativity, curiosity & the courage to begin again.
Happy New Year, friend. Once again, I am sitting at my little writing desk on New Year's Day, bristling with the fear that 2022 will be yet another year when I fail to do what I say I'll do. Sitting at my little desk, thinking about all my old promises.... i am running into a… Continue reading My DIY MFA: Running Into the New Year
Like falling in love, I became vegan the way a character in a Hemingway novel became bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.”
Prune. Make room for summer's blooms. Say GoodbyeIReallyLovedYou. Burn, then walk away. A poem, by Naomi Shihab Nye: Burning the Old Year Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial… Continue reading Day One
I like these rulins, share some of them. I hope I do good this year. 1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a… Continue reading Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulins