Thomas Talks to Me
THOMAS TALKS TO ME
Who is Thomas?He's the angel in my mind's eye, my creative mentor. He's pushy, dogmatic, inspiring and wildly loving.Denise's best selling novel, THE WINTER MAN is now an Amazon Kindle Book and as an oversized trade paperback.Available atCreateSpace.com and Amazon.comThe first book in the popular Ty Merrick Mysteries, QUANTUM MOON, is now an Amazon Kindle Book. Coming soon to paperback!Available at CreateSpace.com and Amazon.comThe second book in the Ty Merrick Mysteries,OPALITE Moon, is now an Amazon Kindle Book. Coming soon to paperback!Available at Amazon.com
01/07/09
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Freak Flag07/01/09 09:53 "Let your freak flag fly, and if someone doesn't get you, move on."
- Drew Barrymore | Living Wabi Sabi07/01/09 09:52 Andrew Juniper claims, "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."I understand this. I especially understand the serene melancholy so identified by the sense of transience and impermanence. That is a Buddhist concept, one that reveals to me the essence of 'being a writer.' Words are impermanent. You can't own them, even if you have all the copyrights in the world. How could you? Words, by their very nature, express inner vision and thought. Once a thought is written down, the words become like dark tracks in the snow. You can never reprise that exquisite moment of calculation when the thought sparked into being, touched one neuron to the next, exploded in the brain and finally fell, dripping with amniotic fluid onto the page.Living wabi-sabi is not about living in the moment, as so many metaphysical writers would have us believe. It's about living in the non-moment, that point between now and then. Words for a writer are wabi-sabi. They suspend us, so the 'now,' with all its gelatinous angst, is held at a distance. The now is given its own point of view and that pov is third person--the narrator is protected by the words wrapping 'round the now. I can write sensibly about the events of every second and the words don't gain their power until 'after.' For words to be effective, a person must come along and read the letters, one by one, and impress them upon his thoughts. That non-moment of now and then is a bridge of serene melancholy. It lasts no longer than a god-second. |
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