Category Archives: art
The Waking by Theodore Roethke #poem
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being … Continue reading
You gotta be hungry… Don’t stop running towards your dream — Les Brown #happiness
I love this speech. It’s full of gems of advice: You gotta be hungry… Practice every day (reminder to self)… Someone’s opinion of you does not need to become your reality… You have greatness within you and responsibility to manifest that greatness… … Continue reading
The dust dance #amwriting
I usually post on Saturday 7:45am. When I miss this deadline, like this weekend, I either do not post or I post at the same time on Sunday or Monday. Today I will do it at 7:45pm 🙂 I want … Continue reading
Writer pilgrimage – Jane Austen’s house in Chawton #amwriting
This weekend I have fulfilled my long held dream and visited Chawton to see a house where Jane Austen created and finished most of her works.
Art therapy – Could you? by Mayakovsky #poem #happiness
Vladimir Mayakovsky is a Russian poet who lived and created at the dawn of the 20th century. Since my introduction to his art in school, I’ve loved it dearly – there is music to his unusual rhyme and composition, there … Continue reading
To speak or to die? Call Me By Your Name #CMBYN #happiness
Warning. This review contains spoilers. Also I have not read a book, I plan to. It is one of those movies – it blows your mind. You watch and rewatch it trying to grasp, understand how you got hooked, why … Continue reading
For those who loved and lost… ‘Anything worth doing is worth doing badly’
Susan Cain is a bestselling author and co-founder of Quiet Revolution. I mentioned her before on the blog as a person who is making introversion ‘normal’. In one of her recent posts she shared Jack Gilbert’s poem below ‘for those … Continue reading
