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The night of delusion is over; it’s almost dawn. The sun is rising, dispelling thick nets of darkness, and lotuses are blooming…If even the planets can’t fathom Here, who will break up these fun and games? —Meditate on Kali!  Why be anxious? – Ramprasad, part of an English version by Rachel Fell McDermott If, “As… Continue Reading >>>

The stories he told were local in the sense of being local to the soul, not to the landlocked Midlands culture.  — Caoilinn Hughes, The Wild Laughter “Write what you know.” What if you know that you are in exile – in what once was local? What if your soul can no longer find its once… Continue Reading >>>

(David Salle) once told me that he never makes any preparatory drawings for or revises anything in his paintings. Every stroke of the brush is irrevocable; nothing can be changed or retracted. A few false moves and the painting is ruined, unsalvageable…He also once told me of how he often gets lost as he paints:… Continue Reading >>>

You don’t begin. You begin and stop. You don’t resume. You believe that without directions, you are lost. Writing is hard work. If you’re lucky, you remember when writing seemed to pour through you. You were a conduit. You didn’t need to think, and if you did think, the writing seemed to go flat. Now,… Continue Reading >>>

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. – Jerry Seinfeld, comedian  Writing is one of the last pieces of evidence that people are still grateful and giving a damn. – Mary Sojourner I write from eighty-one years of life. I write from sixty-nine years of… Continue Reading >>>