WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

creativity

March 12, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Last week one of the suggested tasks was to: Choose an artist totem. It might be a doll, a stuffed animal, a carved figurine, or a wind-up toy. The point is to choose something you immediately feel a protective fondness toward. Give your totem a place of honor and then honor it by not beating… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, creativity, doll, fun, photograph, play, sock monkey, The Artist’s Way, toy, Writing
March 7, 2006

Beginners & Experts

Via Lifehacker, I’ve found a great new blog (as if I could keep up with those I’ve already found): Creating Passionate Users. It was a post there — How to be an expert — that gave me just that little push I needed to jump into the 30 Day Photo Challenge: … the research says… Continue reading

30DayPhoto, The Artist’s Way

beginner, creativity, expert, expertise, photograph, photography, The Artist’s Way, Writing
January 10, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Begin Again

Today I started playing catch-up with the AW group. This involved: Discovering that the dusty book by my bedside is not The Artist’s Way, but another by the same author, Julia Cameron: The Right to Write. This book has many of the same exercises, which is why I was confused. Finding a copy of The… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, Blogging, blogs, creativity, Julie Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, The Artist’s Way, Writing Down the Bones
January 9, 2006

Diving Down

Well, perhaps I will do a bit of writing. My stats are way down. This may, of course, be seasonal — or not. I know what I should do about it: network. Visit lots of sites. Comment. Actually I often visit (though rarely comment) anyway. The thing is, I’m feeling unusually introverted lately. This too… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Blogging, creativity, Crossing to Avalon, drawing, The Artist’s Way, the Creative License, Writing
January 19, 2005

Create

Rollo May, The Courage to Create . . . the creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. . . . transcending can occur only to those who accept the fact of their limitation . . . Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning… Continue reading

Quotes, Writing

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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.

creativity

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion

Beginners & Experts

The Artist’s Way ~ Begin Again

Diving Down

Create