Murder on the page

Murder on the page

murder on the page “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it —wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”  Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch It’s intriguing to guess what Sir...
Why we are all absolute goners

Why we are all absolute goners

Why we are all absolute gonersTo bastardize a Buddhist saying, it’s not so much the finger pointing at the moon, as much as all fingers pointing back at me. Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi SvahaThe Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra Consciousness is a borderless country...
Hope and the wounded healer

Hope and the wounded healer

Hope and the wounded healer Who can sit with another’s deep shame without recoiling or judgment, except one who has worked that same black seam?  “Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.”Zachariah...