Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice. She dreams a little… Complacency: 1. The fact or state of being pleased with a thing or …
Ben Myers, in a piece in the Guardian yesterday on the public role of the private writer, bemoans the fact that “we’re living in era where a writer can’t just write. They have to be out there.” No kidding. Last spring I attended a local writers’ conference. I hadn’t been to one in a few …
Day five of writing for an hour before going online! Yesterday, I will admit, the hour was a struggle. What I wrote wasn’t very good. I didn’t really know where I was starting much less going. However, I kept writing. I also reminded myself a) that I’m new to this single-tasking thing, and b) I …
“We can choose to shift our collective dialogue about time as a lacking resource to a more powerful view of time as friend.” “Time as friend also means the death of multitasking.” ~ Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow Yesterday I wrote that my plan today was to write for an hour before going …
“Jason Womack, president of a workplace performance training company, defines success as being okay with what you haven’t done today.” ~ Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow I’m a morning person, always have been. Whether it’s from having grown up on a farm or a family trait, I am up before the sun—4:45 a.m. …