. . . as a guest blogger. What fun! Check it out at The Write Practice blog.
Thanks to Joe Bunting and his terrific Write Practice team for giving me the opportunity. I’ll follow this post — about similes — with another one or two about metaphors later this year. Onward!
I was going to write about beauty. I had lofty plans, including references to neuroscience.
But yesterday this quote caught my eye:
On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.
–Rumi
And today Sara Dobie Bauer’s blog holds a terrific video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading a letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse about the practice of art.
Sharing these says enough about beauty and the art of practice, for now. Neuroscience-y post will come next week.
May you and your writing open your sails and abide by LeWitt’s advice to DO.
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Tagged Art, beauty, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eva Hesse, Letters Live, Rumi, Sol LeWitt, writing practice
Yesterday my writing felt odd, awkward, out of place. So I picked up Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and read some perspective-setting words and then filmed this.
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Tagged artists, beautiful story, creative practice, Creative writing, Dog, supermodels, The Donald, writing, writing craft
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