Laurie Perez's Blog - Posts Tagged "creative-process"
May this be your claim
May this be your claim on the universe - in moments when smallness rudely points in a direction opposing where your dreams are headed: crack open the cookie
Dare
the vivid performance of the presentJorie Graham
In the late '90s, this was the line I hastily wrote on a yellow post-it and stuck on a high cabinet in my cubicle. High enough to greet anyone stepping in where I had been planted - daring them right in the eye. High enough to be the phrase I looked up to - one heart beat at a time, allowing myself to be reminded.
Every now and then, the line drifts in - a mantra, a call to reverence, a spark of mischief, release from smallness.
Obvious Grist and Hidden Stars: Take a Walk with the Author
As a novelist, I apply imagination to truth
and truth to imagination. This is how
I process the world, whether or not I’m in
the act of writing.
Come on a walk with me in this visual diary
"A single grain of longing for something better
is in itself a dreamy change upon the land..." Read and view the photos in SNAPSHOTS on Medium: Obvious Grist and Hidden Stars by Laurie Perez
and truth to imagination. This is how
I process the world, whether or not I’m in
the act of writing.
Come on a walk with me in this visual diary
"A single grain of longing for something better
is in itself a dreamy change upon the land..." Read and view the photos in SNAPSHOTS on Medium: Obvious Grist and Hidden Stars by Laurie Perez
