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The Artist’s Way

February 11, 2006

I Dream of Dragons

Uploaded by wam mosely Saturday 14 January 02006 I am sleeping in my bed, in a large room, when a handmade greeting card arrives. I find it charming. It flutters in the air and turns into a dragon. A baby dragon, with large, thin wings; so thin that they are nearly transparent. The baby… Continue reading

dreams, The Artist’s Way

dragon, dream
February 9, 2006

Tagged

I have been tagged by Melba, who says she chose me because I wanted to know more about you. She has reframed the 4 Questions into 4 Artist’s Way Questions, since she had already done this meme before she was tagged again — so I’m not sure which ones she wants me to answer. I’ll… Continue reading

Personal, The Artist’s Way

4 Questions, meme, The Artist’s Way
February 5, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

NO-READING week is over as of 10:00 pm tonight. And I will be glad to have it behind me. I learned that not-reading does not, for me, free up vast amounts of energy, though it does free up time — that commodity others covet, and of which I have plenty. I wrote a bit more.… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, disability, illness, shame, The Artist’s Way
February 2, 2006

Synchronicity – Wasteland & Green World

In Crossing to Avalon [the book I was reading when I discovered the Blogging the Artist’s Way group] in the chapter called The Wasteland: Depression and Despair, Jean Shinoda Bolen tells the story of one of her patients: His "nightmare" was actually a waking experience that probably lasted only a matter of seconds. It had… Continue reading

Noticed, Spirit, The Artist’s Way

graffitti, photograph, spirituality, via negativa, via positiva, vision
January 29, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 3: Recovering a Sense of Power

Before I review this past week, I need to talk a bit about the next one. The primary assignment — the challenging assignment — for this next week is Reading Deprivation. As in: NO READING AT ALL. No blogs, no books, no newspapers, no magazines. No blogs. Well, you see my problem. Sadly, Cameron’s argument… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, Blogging, Books, reading, The Artist’s Way

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

The Artist’s Way

I Dream of Dragons

Tagged

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

Synchronicity – Wasteland & Green World

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 3: Recovering a Sense of Power