Via Brain Pickings

Strikingly enough, that mind-wandering is a cause rather than a consequence of unhappiness is at once jarring and heartening — …

From NPR’s website, (author interviews)….by Nate Klug, a theology student at Yale Divinity School.

Mercy

Its water-torture-slow
wend in me. Its work

like the reverse of work.
No wonder human

praise won’t stick.
No wonder anger’s

more often summoned,
its hum, ready-made,

that steadies my head
like hospital television,

throwing blue rumor
for hours at no one.

 

Too quiet tonight.

 

Thinking has a quiet skin.

 

“Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it’s not something where, if you missed it by age 19, you’re finished. It’s never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world—at any age. At least try.”
-Elizabeth Gilbert

via Scribbled Revisions

You don’t have anything
if you don’t have the stories.

Leslie Marmon Silko

March 5, 1948: Native-American author Leslie Marmon Silko was born on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation in Albequerque, New Mexico, 65 years ago today.