Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.