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a poet’s notebook

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spirituality

March 10, 2006

Posie is More Than Cozy

My 30 Day Photo Challenge Flickr Set I chose this photo for today, because I wanted to quote Posie Gets Cozy, and I thought she might like this little domestic image. I found this blog via David Kline, at The Well. This is just a brief exerpt from a long, amazing post: . . .… Continue reading

30DayPhoto, Spirit

30DayPhoto, photograph, spirituality
February 20, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

I confess, this has been an abundant week — an adventurous week, given my usual quiet solitude. Even the solitude is abundant. Right now, for example (it’s Sunday evening) I am writing this during breaks from Poirot, drinking wine and eating good dark chocolate. While I can quite reasonably claim that the specifics are unusual… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, deprivation, language, Linda Hogan, luxury, nouns, religion, Sam Harris, scarcity, spirituality, The Artist’s Way, verbs, Writing
February 16, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Linda Hogan & Other Poets

Linda, as always, was great. She speaks from a deep place. The title of her talk was A Spiritual History of the Living World. I took almost no notes, but Niki did, and perhaps she will post from them at some point; if she does, I will link to it. Also, public access television recorded… Continue reading

Poets, The Artist’s Way

Art, Linda Hogan, Poems, poetry, Poets, spirituality, The Artist’s Way
February 13, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility

Is anyone else feeling a bit . . . sensitive? Early on, Cameron said something about emotional volatility, but I didn’t think: me. I didn’t think: raw. I had forgotten that writing began, for me, in a difficult and painful time. Now, those memories and feelings come back to me. And not just those —… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Linda Hogan, spirituality, synchronicity, 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

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.

spirituality

Posie is More Than Cozy

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

The Artist’s Way ~ Linda Hogan & Other Poets

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility

Synchronicity – Wasteland & Green World