Monthly Archives: September 2020
Whens in the streaming
Meaning flows from each confluence of the whens in the streaming of the teller’s life of the hearer’s life :- Doug.
Intimacy uncovered?
Can story uncover intimacy between teller and hearer? :- Doug.
Where is meaning?
What is the meaning of your story? Where does that meaning reside, or from where arise? :- Doug.
Could not possibly
Tell a story that could not possibly happen. :- Doug.
Spirals you around
Each time you tell, your story spirals you around, showing you more, and subtle, and nuanced. :- Doug.
Expand teller
The object of your story is not to tell things done but to expand teller and hearer. :- Doug.
Strange normal
Work to make the strange normal normal strange :- Doug.
The poet’s opus
The poet’s opus be new eyes for a new people :- Doug.
Life kicks back
Life kicks back. Life has its own ideas, reasonable in its terms. Not ours. Contribute your work. Results variable. :- Doug.
spring of lasting
Your voice is spring of lasting quality. :- Doug.
Poetry is to refresh
Your poetry is to refresh your spirit. :- Doug.
Storyteller, dialogue!
Storyteller, dialogue! With your story, with characters inside and out! :- Doug.
tints and tones
Poetry offers you a way to develop in nuanced tints and tones your lived value. :- Doug.
climb above the fog
I am saying to see with new eyes, to look afresh, to climb above the fog and the clouds, however you might get there—climbing a tree, riding a train, sitting at your poetry desk—and see what new you can see. … Continue reading
Release multitudes
I am seeing my way clear to teaching better. What? Not so much how but why, not so much why as direction, turning heads. Snapping heads. To seeing ourselves larger, as releasing multitudes. Walt Whitman contained multitudes; you release them. … Continue reading