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Words are all we have.

–Samuel Beckett

 

For as long as I can remember, I have longed to live in a world where everyone thrives—where lives have dignity, dreams count, and stories matter. The possibility of this seems to fade with each passing 21st century day. So I turn to words: to connect dots, to bear witness, to celebrate and to lament.

I write in search of words that can speak my language of truth. I write to chart a path into the forest through the trees. I write because I believe that what we experience as individuals is wisdom we can-maybe even must-offer up to the world. The Buddha's last words, recorded by his followers, were: Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

Words—and the alchemy that happens when they meet in line and stanza, paragraph and phrase—are what I have.

Welcome.

blogs

pen ink river

Stream of Consciousness

sites

American Academy of Poets

Art on Alberta

 

ATC Quarterly

 

Attic Writers Workshop

Paris Review Interviews

PEN American Writers

 

Poetry Daily

 

Poetry Foundation

Poets Against War

Poets & Writers

Portland Arts & Lectures

Powells Books

The Writer’s Almanac

Writers' Dojo

Writers on the Net

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