“Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That’s how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That’s what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else’s skin.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple”
–Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Photography art – New York, 1964
“Best Witchcraft is Geometry.” – Emily Dickinson
10 rules of writing (which apply to all creative work) from one of our greatest living writers:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/05/jeanette-winterson-10-tips-on-writing/
They all boil down to: “Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.” – Neil Gaiman
Donating = Loving
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.”
– Kahlil Gibran
Art by Daniel Garber.
We are first attracted by someone because their bag of stories, life or imaginary, glimmers fresh and enticing.
You know they come from another tale. Their mind and legs have trodden softly on exotic paths.
You want to wander deserts, seas and storms with them and listen to their medley of words that heat like fire in midwinter.
We are hardwired with curiosity and a secret cipher to unlock any new stories to put together these tales we travel with swiftly and innocently.
“We tell each other stories in order to survive” – Joan Didion
We tell each other stories in order to survive and sur-thrive.
We write your surviving and sur-thriving stories.
I illustrate with a story within a perfume story – by René Gruau (1971) for Miss Dior Parfum.
© Iulia Halatz
“I am a book of snow.
A spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits.
I belong to the earth and its winter.”
From Pablo Neruda, “Winter Garden.”
Art – Snowstorm, Astoria, NY, 1940, by Frank Navara
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination…”
– Mary Oliver
Art by Albert Marquet.
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.” – Robert Graves
Art by Abdul Mati Klarwein.
“Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.
Face your life,
It’s pain,
It’s pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Art by Anthony Goicolea.
