Thousands of years ago someone crawled into a dark cave with some kind of fire and drew this image. Why? Why didn’t s/he just work out in the daylight? How many people saw the image at that time? Was it just one person, or did they work in teams? One to carry and keep the fire and one to draw? How many knew of the magic they made in the secret heart of the world?
I came across these two quotes in my reading this week, and as I copied them and looked at them on the piece of paper together, I realized it would be a very different world if the people who make the decisions that affect large numbers of people used these simple lines as guidance.
“Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity will not survive.”
The Dalai Lama
“Wisdom is knowledge plus: Knowledge — and the knowledge of its own limits.”
Gristle fist, gristle fist
Platypus Plunk,
Centipede, millipede, Ganymede,
Chunk!
There was more I could not remember. Sometimes I just don’t know what my mind is thinking.
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I have been feeling so uninspired lately in many aspects of my life that I thought at least I could put a spark to my writing. I don’t have enough free time to write, rewrite, edit and complete pieces of longer fiction and blog and write poetry all of which I am finding very sustaining in these dark times. So I have decided to write a continuous novel using my blog starting with some of the ideas I was working on in my NANOWRIMO novel. I lost the ending through a combination of fatigue, incompetence and bad luck, but I don’t think I was very satisfied with it anyway.
My New Project:
I will start by publishing the beginning of my novel in small pieces on the weekend and maybe working in new material and see where it takes me. Any creative and useful feedback is welcome especially ideas around what directions to take the story. I love working collaboratively. So if you want to leave comments in any form, please don’t be shy.
My Weekly Blogging Schedule:
Monday: Poetry/ mine or somebody else’s
Tuesday/ Wednesday: A little bit about my life in process.
Thursday/Friday: Commentary or Criticism on the world, science, art, and culcha: You know all that stuff that I have no control over.
Saturday/Sunday: One or Two installments of the continuous story.
I am hoping that a framework will inspire as well as ground me to a task and get me working more. I don’t expect to be perfect, but I will be more consistent, and that will hopefully bring more inspired results.
I really mean it about the comments.
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