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When you stoop to convenient expediency and rationalise into acts of opportunism for the sake of a fast buck. When your main interest becomes a matter of size just to be big, rather than good, hard, wonderful work. When you stop building on strong and vital ideas, and start a

What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when it reaches the lost surface of our mind or our body’s incapacity to hold it, or the limits of our understanding. What we name as anger is actually only the incoherent physical incapacity to sustain

I’ve just never had that much confidence in inspiration. I don’t trust it to deliver. I prefer to think that, if you sit down and work and put in the hours, regardless how frustrating it may be, in the end things come. Things cannot not come. I mentioned

In my experience boredom is often close to epiphany; to the great idea. Boredom is just boredom until it’s not. But perhaps boredom is the wrong word here. For me it’s more a kind of distraction - a sort of letting go. Or, the willingness to relinquish control

Most people have a range of behaviours available to them. Most behaviours have more than one factor underpinning them. Every behaviour is used as a means of communication; and as - a way - of either gaining a desired outcome or avoiding an unwanted one. Socially sanctioned - ways. Unacceptable

That’s Not How We Do It Here A Line In The Sand Conflict Resolved Reclaim Book Spine Poetry is another ‘Found’ Form of poetry. I have two collections of Book Spine Poetry. One by Nina Katchadourian, and another by Annette Dauphin Simon. The piece above is from The Spines

They say that if one drinks alone, one is an alcoholic. But  What if one drinks with the sunset, with the lonely forest or the moonlit ocean? But What if one drinks with the angels, with the prophets, or with God? But What if one drinks with the artists, with