Smalltown Poets is a band that's new to me but not new to the music scene. I got to talk with them a little through email in anticipation of their new album, Under the New Sun, that releases today. This is part one of that interview. BibleDude: You say you feel you've...
creativity and art
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Creativity
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for when your creativity wanes
He tells us beside the Frio's flow, in his talk on The Care and Feeding of Creativity. That when work stalls and words stop, move. Because it's in the moving that we breathe. It's in the breathing that we keep breathing. Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Work out....
crystal blue persuasion
Grace has brought a blue-topped spiral notebook as well as two big containers—one of markers, one of crayons. She’s drawn a yellow sun in the left corner, and I smile because the prelude was called “Sun of my Soul.” We missed the prelude. “Be sure to put the top back...
for when the way grows weary
It’s only a one-mile loop, this Dry Marsh Trail. I can handle that, even in this heat. It’s an easy hike, though, and it’s good to be away and outside, just the two of us. I lag behind, stopping to take pictures of this and that. He waits for me to catch up, reads out...
what time is it?
It's 7:14am. I've just poured my coffee, spilled it all over our...
tell me more about the pain.
"I’ve heard several editors say they make a practice of chopping off the...
moving versus resting
I'm frozen in time. Actually, frozen on my couch somewhere between working on...
the artist’s rule
"As you make art or write, the process is a container for awareness....
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