passion
October 31, 2009
- If Hemingway were here today___wrote this last night in my journal while eating a triple choclate donut and drinking black coffee. Hmmmm! Really that line sums it up for me: sport, passion and patience__all can be referenced to the details of Hemingway's life.Think about it. If you don't have a sport to lose yourself in when your not writing, your dead as a writer period. No time now for ...
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October 21, 2009
- As she walks her way out to the road gently, the man watches her steps from inside the café. She ties her coat belt and turns back to see him for the last time. The man puts the cigarette on his lips and keeps watching her. The girl takes her perfume out of her pocket and sprays it on her wrist and her neck. She takes her handkerchief out from her purse but before using it the wind blows it away ...
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October 11, 2009
- I would like to share this interview with Henry Hutton, a good friend of mine who is helping revolutionize the publishing industry with his self publishing agency, Publish and Sell Enterprises. Known in publishing circles as The PublishingGuy, Henry has also created an online newspaper called PublishingGuy's News Update offering the latest news in the dynamic publishing industry. 1. What made ...
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August 21, 2009
- A number of concepts connect sex, politics, and religion--strong belief systems, rules of transgression, long complicated histories of bad behavior, some unyieldingly bad poetry, and saddest of all, Mel Gibson movies. But, what makes these three arenas of human participation particularly powerful is the degree to which they are ultimately about submission. We like to think of all three as forms ...
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August 8, 2009
- Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!We had asked the entire Red Room community to blog on one topic: "What are your obsessions? Your ...
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August 5, 2009
- I am obsessed withgetting it right. By this I mean I am obsessed with the unavoidable knowledge that I will only live this one life this one time, even if I allow for reincarnation and the possibility that I'll come back as a three-toed sloth. So I want to be as human as I can be this time around. I don't necessarily mean 'right' in the sense of 'right and wrong', I mean 'right' in the ...
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August 5, 2009
- What a topic! Wow! This could take up an entire book in and of itself...My passion is to find and express myself and my gifts authentically and lovingly at all times and in all places. This is a constant challenge as I am bombarded by humanity's, as well as my own, dysfunctions and inauthenticities seemingly every moment of every day. What I do know is that I cannot control ANYTHING or ...
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August 5, 2009
- In my case, an obsession, or compelling motivation, would be writing. Whether or not I'm actually putting words on paper, scenarios play in my head. Other obsessions are web design and painting. I sometimes wonder if Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a factor in the editing and art process. Writing and art also qualify as passions . . . love objects . . . I should take them out to dinner maybe. ...
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August 5, 2009
- We live in a rational age - or do we? Politics is more about challenge and posturing these days than about a marketplace of ideas. We fight wars screaming with ideology, not the saber-rattling Realpolitik of the past. In sports: football, basketball, and baseball were once the showplace of muscle and speed-enforced strategies. Today they're the stuff of entertainment - the hail Mary, the trey ...
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August 5, 2009
- Summed up in a piece I wrote about my first great love, first great obsession, first great fixation. What came out was a poem:If you could see me now, this far awayWhat would you do, my love? What would you say?The fearless child who took the whole world onOn your behalf - would you decide, she's gone?Those big green eyes your touch, your kiss, once firedWould you look down at them, and think, ...
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