“If something inside you is real,
we will probably find it interesting,
and it will probably be universal.
So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work.
Write straight into the emotional center of things.
Write towards vulnerability.
Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable;
worry about being absent or fraudulent.
Risk being unliked.
Tell the truth as you understand it.
If you’re a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this
and it is a revolutionary act –
truth is always subversive.”
~ ANNE LAMOTT
(Thank you Captain. My Captain! For sharing this beautiful piece with me today!)
To all my fabulous teachers, mentors, friends, students, and colleagues who keep my fire lit! Especially to my son, who plays outside the box and asks me the most profound questions at 3:30 in the morning. 🙂 I’m always learning. Love to you all! #WorldTeachersDay
Let’s help Dexter get to the top! Time is running out! Vote now!
#LoveYouDexterAndWill #HeARTsSpeak #CelebrateShelterAnimals
And Will, is that a Boston College blanket underneath I see? I smell Latin! Santa went to Harvard dude. 🙂
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. ~ Martha Graham, Dancer and Choreographer
“The economic future does not belong to resource extraction industries. Communities that host these businesses know what I mean. The resource extractors come, they dig, drill, pump and spread money around but also strain local services and infrastructure. Eventually they leave, and the local folks get to clean up the mess. There’s always a good economic reason that extraction comes to an end. The price of the resource might drop, the resource becomes harder and more expensive to get to, or cheaper alternatives are discovered. For the coal business, it’s been fracking and natural gas that caused them pain. For coal workers, it was mountain top removal and other mechanized forms of extraction that reduced the employment in mining. It is unbelievably deceptive of the President of the United States to articulate an economic strategy that calls for the revival of these businesses. The coal miners know that they need to prepare for a different type of work. They certainly know their children need to be prepared for change.” ~ More here on: We’ll Always Have Paris: Trump’s Impact on the Climate Agreement by Arturo Herrera
JACQUELINE P. ASHBY 