A challenge comes to its successful but inglorious end: daily post 105 of 105
This is the end of my writing challenge, but not completing the exercise does not in any way feel like failure.
Advice for a better life
Learning to write well, creatively, productively applies as well to learning to live well, creatively, productively.
Teacher as artist
Teaching does not supplant writing, and the artist at some deeply significant level remains always a teacher.
Writing the neighborhood
Whenever I’m at a loss for topics to write about, I simply look out my window. The most intriguing stories, though, are hidden from view.
Moral intentions of writing
I confess to not always living up to the aspirations of James Baldwin. Not everything I write has moral intentions.
Teaching possibilities: transformations that change the world
What happens between teacher and student, as well as between parent and child, between intimates and colleagues, at its best involves changes that bring “more enlightened living in the world.”
Daily post 010 of 260
As a writer I’m with Richard Powers in finding more fulfillment in preparing myself as a receptacle for the creative experience than in producing a daily word count.
Safe in Words
Trust the pen, trust the paper, trust the words into sentences into paragraphs, into essays and books. Something is said.
Driving in the Dark
Unable to see where I am or what lies in my immediate path should not prevent me from venturing out, as long as I have the vision of my destination to guide me.