We’re all going to die, we all know it. As Mary Oliver puts it in her poem, The Summer Day, ”Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?”
Hell yes, Mary, yes.
The poem then asks: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?”
That is just the kind of question I’ve
I consider Glendalough, Co Wicklow, Ireland (where Iseult Gonne is buried and where some chapters of “A Dance in Time” are set) to be one of the most inspiring places on earth. I spent as much time as possible there while writing that novel and Read the whole post »
In my recent post, Please Don’t Call Me New Age , I spoke of the “perennial philosophy”, a shared world view of the meaning of life — found in cultures across the globe and across the ages.
This perennial philosophy has been documented in India, Ireland, Africa, China, Mexico, Japan, Egypt, pre-colonial America, Greece… In each place, it
Until not too long ago, as many of you know, I worked as a writing mentor and literary agent with Font Literary Agency. I have now left that work behind to pursue writing full time.
For assorted reasons, I know this has been the right move for me and I have no regrets — except for one.
Just before leaving the agency, I was about to sign an exceptionally talented writer from
I see a reader on amazon.co.uk has dubbed the contemporary story in A Dance in Time (Izzy’s story) to be “New Age”.
No, no, no.
I am not New Age. I never took on New Age beliefs for precisely the same reason that I dropped my
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Inspirational Trait: Doing the Dream.
Dereck has a dream. He wants to leave his cubicle. The cubicle is Dereck’s work space but also his metaphor for how he feels about his work life (not good).
Dereck dreams of leaving his cubicle behind and going on a
My friend Karen, who’s always looking out for me, sent me through a link, as soul food, she said.
So I’m passing it on to you.
June 15th this year was the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event. For those of you too young (or too old) to remember, that’s the event that kicked off Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s famous peace campaign.
Since June, Yoko has been
IN AUTUMN OF 1916, Iseult Gonne sent a long letter to her friend and mentor, WB Yeats, in which she referred to his recent critique of her writing.
“I am most thankful to you for those criticisms you have made on my scribblings,” she wrote. “Yes, they are bad. I knew it all the while and I am glad of what you say about truth and beauty. I will try and put it into practice . . . but just now I am still too tired to work.”
“Too tired to work” - when I first came upon those words, as part of research I was doing into Gonne’s life for my novel, A Dance in Time , I felt a terrible sadness for this woman I was attempting to capture as a character. Yes, the writing she was doing at the time could
The blog is now a month old. When I started, I was unsure of exactly how it would evolve. I am still unsure. But that’s fine. I’m happy to remain open for now, while it finds its form.
I began with a concept “Inspired Living” and a passionate belief that the techniques and approaches we bring to creating a book or a work of art are key to creating a more balanced, authentic and joyful life.
Many people urgently need to reclaim Read the whole post »
The Inspired Response to anything that arises in life is always spirit (not ego) centred and has the following characteristics: