Says Cameron in The Artist’s Way, “creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment, we are timeless.”
The Artist’s Way: Risk
When my parents brought me to the emergency room for the second time in as many weeks, they worried that, even in the 1960s, my sudden susceptibility to injury might raise suspicions of mistreatment. I already wore Raggedy Ann-like black stitches on my face after a mishap involving a swivel chair, coffee table and locked […]
The Artist’s Way: Morning Pages
At the root of a successful recovery is the commitment to puncture our denial, to stop saying, “It’s okay” when in fact it’s something else. The morning pages press us to answer what else.
The Artist’s Way: Currents
She requires a choice with every chapter. Will I sit with the pelicans and snag the easy fish, or let the current take me clear to the ocean?
The Artist’s Way: Safety
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by.
The Artist’s Way: Invitation
The Artist’s Way is an “into-the-water” book that has helped readers move from “the embankment into the flow of a creative life.”
Rumors of Water: Time
What really happened on the golf course that fateful day? The things we cannot write about today, we will surely find we can write about tomorrow.
Daily Dose: Gold-Plated
What if you got invited to TED? What would *you* wear?
Daily Dose: Mental Hygiene
Did you get your Daily Dose of office amusement today?
Rumors of Water: A Small Audience
The key to getting published is to keep working with small audiences, while gradually making forays into slightly larger arenas.
Rumors of Water: Play
With Spring coming into full bloom, I’m still doing all the same serious things I did all winter long. But I get up a little earlier and I read a poem (or two) every day.
Rumors of Water: Voice
Perhaps cultivating a writer’s voice can be more about nourishing those things that give life to it: passions and a sense of place.
Rumors of Water: The Ingredients at Hand
Of all the gifts Rumors of Water will give a writer, an excuse is not one.
The Heart Aroused: Chaos and Complexity
Allowing the science of complexity — and the poetic tradition — to play out naturally in the maze of business might take a little trust.
The Heart Aroused: Strategy and Soul
There’s an equal place in the psyche for both strategy and soul.
The Heart Aroused: Embracing Fire
How can you give oxygen to the fire of your creative soul in business?
The Heart Aroused: Meetings in the Dark
How has fear kept you from tapping into your creative soul, in business or in life?
Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
Others far wiser than I have discovered poetry’s needful but long overlooked place in business