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Tag Archives: writing
What is the Meaning of This? Lessons from the Hall of the Fisher King
Most people have no idea that I’ve spent a good deal of the last 20+ years contemplating the Western Mysteries around the Holy Grail. No, not the Grail sagas of Indiana Jones, Dan Brown and the conspiracy theories about Templars … Continue reading
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Tagged Fisher King, Grail, Greille, Holy Grail, justice, spirituality, Western Mysteries, writing
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Ode to a Clepsydra – #poetry
Ode to a Clepsydra To the alchemist’s eye, water = emotion, and so it is that our moments can be marked by the rise and fall of feeling, a steady stream of anger-eager-joy-hope-faith devotion to emotion. Days that pass without … Continue reading
Winter Showers – #poetry
When the rain starts again, comes the relief. The relief of being loosed from months of being careful-so-careful about how long you let the water run at the tap or linger in the shower. When the rain starts at last … Continue reading
You live close to my bones, you… – #poetry
You live close to my bones, you with your soft eyes that can snap hard in a turn, your solid arms with their sure embrace around my heart, every bit of you, from ten solid toes to strong-wide shoulders forging … Continue reading
On Remembering An Almost-Overdue Deadline For Work That Was My Idea, In The First Place – #poetry
What must be done, Must Be Done. I can procrastinate all I like, plumb the depths of my lazy rationalizations all I care to, excuse my inaction with a chock-full calendar… But what must be done, Must Be Done. It’s … Continue reading
Ethereal – #poetry
Ethereal The ancients trusted their guts — they knew as well as we (but were braver in the saying) that all we are, all we have ever been, all we will ever be, is made of air. Breathe in… breathe … Continue reading
Waking up to something better… picking up where I left off
I love when this happens. I woke up this morning with the solution to the sticky problem I’ve been having with a manuscript I’d all but given up on. I started a novel back in 2015. This was for NaNoWriMo … Continue reading
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Tagged author, books, design, fiction, format, galley, manuscript, novel, print, publishing, work, writing
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Now on Amazon Kindle – Beloved Distance
Beloved Distance is now available on Amazon – in Kindle format.
Posted in books, neurobiology, neuroscience, philosophy, publishing, science, writing
Tagged audacity, author, Beloved Distance, blog, book, book cover, Camillo Golgi, cover design, details, font, formatting, line height, nerve, nerves, nervous system, neurobiology, neurology, neuron, neuron doctrine, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, philosophy, publishing, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, writer, writing
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Beloved Distance is picking up speed (after only 2 days)
Well, this is fun! I just checked my humble stats (not my full-featured analytics package) for a quick overview of how things are going over with Beloved Distance, and yes, people are taking me up on the offer of the … Continue reading
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Somehow, this book is different
To date, I’ve written and published over 10 books. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, mythology… you get the idea. Actually, I’ve written more than I’ve published. Some were more important for me to write, than to put them out into the … Continue reading
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