Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. – James Joyce For the past month, I have been editing a new novel. To write a novel you have to deal with characterization – where a writer “reveals the personality of the character”. But a terrific amount of creative alchemy …
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Eternity in an Hour
To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower/ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour. – William Blake We live within multiple worlds ever day. Our dreams, hopes, ambitions all influence our inner worlds to some extent. But there …
Connected in the Deep
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. – William James Standing at the edge of the stormy deep, I sense the pulse of millions of my fellow humans. Beyond the artificial boundaries of nations and politics, lie the vast interlaced storylines of our species. Life sweeps …
The Mark of Wisdom
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Emerson Not a day passes when I do not witness something miraculous. Since I was a small boy I have marveled at this world of ours. My earliest memory was retrieved through meditation. I was only a few months old lying …
On the Road of Life
I remember him as something left behind on the road of life – as something I have passed, rather than having actually been -and almost think of him as someone else. Charles Dickens Each season of our life imprints upon our hearts a record of its passing. What did we accomplish, learn or need to …
I Shall Not Waste My Days
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London Rise in the morning and greet the sun. Do not waste the dawning of a new day. One never knows when the last day will come. That …
The Stuff of Life
A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us…. It is necessary, now and then, for a man to go away and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and ask himself, ‘Who am …
