When I first learned to paint I was timid. I had to learn to trust what I saw and the ability in my hands. Like most beginning artists I had trouble recording what I actually saw. My frustration wasn’t so much with inaccuracy in my work as a lack of beauty. If sunlight fell a [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 8, 2008
Gregory Orr: “This I Believe: The Making of Poems”
Gregory Orr wrote in his essay This I Believe: The Making of Poems:
“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.
“….Because poems are meanings, even the saddest poem I write is proof that I want to survive.
“….Whenever I read a poem that [...]
