do you sometimes feel like you really don’t get where you’re at? like you’re stuck in some confusing, chaotic morass of dreams, demands, moments of joy, feelings of depression? if you have a journal, here’s a fun tool you can use that might just open a new door for you. take an old entry that… Continue reading a fun and crazy writing experiment
Category: creativity: poetry, art, etc.
practical creativity
so i was going to tell you about my favourite list post from the litemind group writing project. it’s zara’s 6 steps to take writing ideas from wordpress themes. i like it so much because it shows practical creativity at its best: she takes something that usually sits in the background (a blog design) and… Continue reading practical creativity
the soup oracle
from my tea table book of poetry, here’s a poem i wrote many years ago. it’s neat to see that eventually i did ask the oracle what it meant … read the soup last night 12 midnight was good good hot soup in the fall few days before new moon read the soup and the… Continue reading the soup oracle
thanks, violeta
the other day, i came across pensieve, who is challenging the blogosphere to come up with a thanksgiving limerick. since i’ve been digging back into my chilean songs lately, i came up with this harebrained idea of trying to turn violeta parra’s gracias a la vida into a limerick. it doesn’t do justice to violeta’s… Continue reading thanks, violeta
what’s it gonna be?
remember last week, when i mentioned our meditation meetup with yama? yesterday, yama kindly sent over his fabulous illustration of why we meditate. here it is. what’s it gonna be? which one do want to be? (this post can be found at the meditation, yoga and spiritual growth carnival)
the last remembrance day song for 2007: canto libre by victor jara
yesterday i promised you a translation of victor jara’s canto libre. here it is (and here is the MP3 version). my verse is a dove looking for a place to nest. and with a roar it opens its wings to fly, to fly. my song is free and wants to give itself to whoever… Continue reading the last remembrance day song for 2007: canto libre by victor jara
remembrance day songs for a different kind of soldier
don’t know why remembrance day fascinates me so – at any rate, here’s another post about it, following the one last week and this and this last year. today i’d like to honour some soldiers for peace and democracy who died upholding their convictions. ephialtes, a fighter for democracy 400 BCE martin luther king, fighter… Continue reading remembrance day songs for a different kind of soldier
remembrance day songs for 2007
a few days from now is remembrance day – november 11 here in canada, when we remember our soldiers in the war. and when we imagine a future without war. i know, it sounds crazy. just this morning i was reading about paul tibbets, the man who threw the atomic bomb on hiroshima and who… Continue reading remembrance day songs for 2007
OMG – NaNoWriMo
this is a first, folks. more precisely, two firsts and probably one last. the first and the last: this is definitely the first time you’ve seen me say OMG here, and quite likely the last. it’s just not the kind of thing that makes me ROTFLMAO (okay, that was probably also the last time i… Continue reading OMG – NaNoWriMo
kindness
this is a post from my old blog that never managed to make it over here, and it is very a propos: if change therapy means to attend – to pay close attention – to change, and if we all want to have and see more kindness in this world – then why don’t we… Continue reading kindness