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July 26, 2014
“This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is […]
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March 22, 2014
"Everything is energy. Ideas are simply organized energy, a sort of mold into which more solidified energy can be poured. A book begins as an idea. So does a social movement. So does a building. We cast our dreams and desires ahead of us, and as we move toward them, their content takes on solidity. […]
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February 5, 2014
Just came across this, which follows up yesterday's post nicely: "A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments." --Brene Brown
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small steps

December 17, 2013
I'm currently working on a few projects that require small, daily steps. I liked this excerpt from Julia Cameron's book "The Sound of Paper," as it speaks to this reality of creative progress: "I don't know why it is that we fail to talk about art in terms of humble diligence. So much of making […]
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quotes

October 25, 2013
"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears…" --Ayse Juaneda “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” --Rumi
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September 2, 2013
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." --Leonardo da Vinci
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June 24, 2013
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” -Kenneth Tynan
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