Tag Archives: mindfulness

The Novel

To abandon the novel- would be a surrender. It would allow my sorrow to become curtains on all the windows, locks on all the doors Yet the leaves would still fall outside, and the snow. In the coming spring, new … Continue reading →

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Gratitude

How Do you express gratitude toward those you love?

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Advice for a Writer

Make your work. Find a way to make your work. I think that’s the best way to see if your work has legs. So, many times as writers, we’re in our own heads, literally. And people don’t really like to … Continue reading →

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Love

My grandson, a toddler on the go, and I, his grandfather with Parkinson’s, have a closeness around matters of motion. He knows that I can’t carry or lift him, so he climbs into my lap. It worries me that he … Continue reading →

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Food

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.”— Marjorie Kinnan … Continue reading →

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