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Saturday, September 29th, 2007Wisdom and the Fabric of Life
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“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
–Proverb 3:17
“…all her paths are peace.”
I’ve always marveled at this passage extolling the virtues of wisdom.
Paths of peace […]
Shaving by Candlelight
By Tim Anderson
“I’d like mornings better if they started later”
–Author Unknown
What kind of a morning person are you?
I have a writing friend who says she is definitely not a morning person. She is much more of a late-night-creative, who prefers to awake at the crack of tenish. I know another writer who is […]
Finding Peace in the Parking Lot
By Tim Anderson
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us”
–Boris Pasternak
C.S. Lewis writes of his conversion to Christianity in Surprised by Joy. I’ve always loved that title because it speaks to me of the reality of life. Though we fancy ourselves the masters of our fates, and the lords and overseers […]
Golf and the Writer’s Life
By Tim Anderson
“It’s the process of writing and life that matters… We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.”
–Natalie Goldberg
I love to play golf. I also hate the game with a passion. Nothing else in life has ever held such power to send my spirits soaring in an instant […]
The Barred Owl and the Writer’s Life
By Tim Anderson
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
–Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart
There’s a path near my home that I walk quite frequently. The path itself is asphalt and it winds through a stand of trees along the edge of a creek. Though it’s in the middle of a populace suburb, I often spot wildlife. Deer […]
Expectations and the Writer’s Life
By Tim Anderson
“We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.”
–Samuel Johnson
What is it about expectation that is so captivating? So enthralling, so - essential?
It’s a particular bane of writers that their lives are lived between moments of expectation. The expectation that a job […]
Footsteps, Shadows and Shoulders
by Tim Anderson
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
–Henry James
“Our doubt is our passion…”
A friend recently confided in me about the doubts he was having […]
Watching Birds and the Writing Life
by Tim Anderson
I had a friend years ago who was an ornithologist. He was quite brilliant, and well known around the world - well, within the halls of academia, that is - or, at least, within those halls where other bird enthusiasts dwelled. Though I admired his intellect, and enjoyed his quirky outlook […]
Self-Delusion and The Writing Life
by Tim Anderson
Self-Delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.”
–Paul Sweeney
Writing is a solitary pursuit.
We generate an idea in the midst of a solitary mind, sit before a solitary computer screen, and tap away in a solitary flurry of inspiration. Or, so we hope.
Because much of our time as writers […]