Will You Regret Not Becoming an Artist?
Will you live to regret it if you don't follow your dream of being an artist? At the end of your life, will you deeply regret taking the sure and…
Will you live to regret it if you don't follow your dream of being an artist? At the end of your life, will you deeply regret taking the sure and…
In 1902, an aspiring young writer received a rejection letter from the poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Enclosed with a sheaf of poems the twenty-eight-year-old poet had sent was…
Did you ever go on a treasure hunt when you were a child, or read Poe's "The Gold Bug"? Then you know the first thing you have to do before…
Have you ever wanted to drill a hole in your head? Have you ever thought about how much fun or what an adventure that might be? Did you know that…
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you foolishly consistent? This quote comes from Emerson's essay "Self Reliance." And it reveals the essence…
"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." - Francis of Assisi There is an old story about Quaker relief workers in Europe after World War II. After…
"Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib." - Louise Nevelson, Sculptor Artists are the luckiest people I know. That may sound a little funny to you, but it's…
"Truth is always on the side of the more difficult." - Friedrich Nietzche Not too far from the small town where I grew up in northwest Louisiana, there is a…
"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung." - Rabindranath Tagore Several years ago the American Medical Association found…
This blog is for the barely brave and beginning lovers like me, who refuse to abandon their dream, now more humble and real, and struggle to meet life and even…