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What brings you Joy! Compiled by Nick Cave
What comes out
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about c...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I a...
A poem is done when it stops bothering me. That is...
Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.
Keeping a Journal
The word “preventative” is commonly and erroneousl...
Question Air
1973
Two Feet
Writers were fortunate enough that they could trea...
Practicing art is not a way to make money or becom...
Dalton Hessel: The Death of the Dinner Table
People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb fr...
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated...
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring post...
There are so many ways of being despicable it quit...
The paradox of education is precisely this - that ...
All art is a kind of confession, more or less obli...
I love America more than any other country in the ...
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprec...
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their...
Pastectomy
A sage was asked, “How long have we been on this j...
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboar...
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales an...
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: i...
Don't ever apologise to an author for buying somet...
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside ...
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing...
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a books...
People think dreams aren't real just because they ...
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies t...
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly...
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also...
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast...
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees w...
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist...
Find a subject you care about and which you in you...
How Long Have We Been on this Journey?
Elsewhere by Richard Russo
dissonant and dormant in the background
Richard Russo
What I discovered I liked best about striking out ...
YMCA Logos of the Past & Present
Four Ounce Canning Jars
Baking Eleven Loaves of Sourdough Rye Wheat Corn O...
How it’s written counts for something. Mary Karr
Write without thinking of the result in terms of ...
Give your brain the regular doses of quiet it requ...
This is what I love about writing. I think the wri...
I've been writing all my adult life, which is a lo...
Forget changing the clocks, does Monday have to al...
Ducks, Three Ducklings, Two River Otters in Blacks...
Not knowing what to put down for the next sentence...
In an age when Americans are spending less and les...
Josh Marshall
Richard Russo's Writing Advice to Andre Dubus III
Our pain is not the poison; the lies about the pai...
Perhaps pain was not a hot potato after all, but a...
things start to happen on their own.
Interview with novelist Andre Dubus III
Water buffalo escapes slaughter, evades police, be...
This Tensor Fascia Latae Stretch for Athletes: Wor...
House Dress
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for...
“You know what else is unfair, about Joe...
“A long time ago I stopped wond...
the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep w...
Dreams
I don’t think writers should be worried about trea...
People who make a habit of closely observing birds...
Empire of Dreams
Swimming brings many of us so much joy. It doesn’t...
Ann Sarah Iverson: it takes opening up to let some...
There's a wid bunny in our tiny urban yard
Orion, Jupiter Mars Saturn & The Pleiades: The gif...
I wonder if he knows that all I do is apologize. T...
On my way out to my car the next morning, I see an...
When reentering society and risking rejection, the...
The music is a safe place to practice being human....
Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up an...
The God I decide to believe in is the God of the b...
Get out of bed. Don’t lie there and think- thinkin...
Pain transforms one woman into two so that she has...
Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way...
There must be always remaining in every life, some...
I need to sit with the quiet. I know that much.
Prayer is a form of communication between God and ...
In whatever sense this year is a new year for you,...
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward...
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can o...
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a...
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power t...
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your ho...
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we ca...
When you write your truth, it is a love offering t...
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Sunday, September 01, 2024
I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
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