For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.