rapture
November 9, 2009
- I’ve reached the age where I know what I do well: I write well. I can structure the heck out of a novel. I can create characters who will make you weep. I’m a pretty good teacher. I enjoy public speaking. Then there are other things that teach me humility. Today, I sat in Starbucks running through my notes for a characterization workshop I’ll be teaching at the November 14th ...
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March 6, 2009
- The building momentum of Gathering led to a third stage, Explosion, the breakthrough stage, “like the burning magma of a volcano,” as Ms. Kiebert puts it, “something new was emerging and now “all of a sudden everything was coming together… though previously unformed… [the] concept that had been resting in my preconscious had now surfaced and was present with me. Inspiration had ...
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November 7, 2008
- I've had a few days of celebrating, accompanied by mixed emotions. While Obama's election and the clear rejection of the GOP brand by the majority of the country is certainly something to celebrate, the fact that Prop. 8 in California passed and Michele Bachman was re-elected showed me that too many of our people are still entrenched in a painful paradigm of separation and hate. And I ...
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September 23, 2008
- Immanentize the eschaton - in conversation with an environmental scientist, I learn that there are some political, religious and scientific thinkers who believe some "end of days" type event(s) might actually be a good thing for our screwed up world and, possibly, in the long term interest of, well, I'm thinking, those political, religious and scientific "thinkers." Good for ...
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