On Decision-Making

On Decision-Making

A decision is a bucket you dip into the creative Flow of the universe, which is the raw material from which all forms are made. The Flow takes the shape and form of the bucket you dip into it. The Flow also shapes and reshapes the bucket, bringing its essential nature...
Poetry Alchemy

Poetry Alchemy

Poems are living beings. They enter through your skin and eyes and ears; they swim in through your dreams. They burn through the fog of everydayness to reveal life’s brilliance hiding in plain sight. They transform your biology, your history, the rhythms of your...
How To Choose Right Livelihood

How To Choose Right Livelihood

On a morning walk along the beach near my home, I watched an eagle hurtle down to the water, talons extended, wings braking its descent with aileron-like precision. I couldn’t see its target, but it skidded against the waves, missed whatever it was after, flapped its...

What’s your creative process?

Thinking about this quote, today, from American photographer Robert Adams. “The operating principle that seems to work best is to go to the landscape that frightens you the most and take pictures until you’re not scared anymore.” –Robert Adams....