The Path Not Taken, Yet

Posted on October 29, 2013     3 Comments

This is a difficult blog for me to write. I’ve been sort of avoiding it since I got home from the Writing by Writers conference in Tomales Bay, Calif. But a week has passed and it’s time to step up. The reason I’ve been avoiding this blog is that as soon as I articulate what […]

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Off Course

Posted on October 24, 2013     2 Comments

I’m still coming down from my six days in Marin County where I took a writing workshop with Ron Carlson at the Writing by Writers conference. I spent some time the last couple of days transcribing my notes and downloading images. I came across the one above this morning, a panoramic view of Bodega Bay. […]

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Let Go

Posted on October 23, 2013     2 Comments

Thanks to Fenton Johnson, who shared this quote recently from philosopher Alan Watts at the Writing by Writers conference. Belief is the insistence that the truth is what one would like or wish it to be. Faith is the unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has […]

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