An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.