“Love certainly draws us on, making learning feel more like discovery and making work feel worth it, even when that work doesn’t exactly feel like play.” LoveWorkEducationLearningEarth CareClimate Care Book:Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge Source: Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge
“Images of both distance and closeness, smallness and vastness, exist in 'North on the Illahee Ferry.' Every life is sustained by both.” LifeEarthPoetryLife PhilosophyClimateSustainabilityEarth DayEarth Care Book:Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge Source: Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge
“Why don’t people 'look up'? In other words, why do they almost blindly do things that are counter to their well-being or survival?” EarthPoetryChangeClimateSustainabilitySelf CareChange Your LifePersonal ChangeEarth Care Book:Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge Source: Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow deep down, to embrace her limits, to admit that, indeed, she would someday die—if not of a worm or a ceiling, then of something else. The very nature of a story admitted this reality. To be a writer was to say, yes, I am just another Murasaki, and it is quite possible that no one will remember my name.” WritingWriterWritersMurasakiTale Of Genji Book:The Novelist Source: The Novelist
“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing” WritingWriting ProcessWriting LifeWriting Advice Author:L.L. Barkat
“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early. —from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing” WritingWriting ProcessWriting AdviceWriting Philosophy Author:L.L. Barkat