Laurie Perez's Blog - Posts Tagged "creativity"

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

the vivid performance of the present

Jorie 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.

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

I, like you, am mostly
Water and thought, currents
Deeply stirred by roars and whispers
Born from emotion.

read WATER SPELLS & FLUID BOUNDARIES form TRUE SELF PROTECTION, by Laurie Perez in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself on Medium