Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.