In the main hall the ceiling will soar above everyone, underground, with near magical light shining on opportunities and courageous perseverance and solidified resolutions of city officials, consultants by the score, and financiers. The transit station will declare the power of some, but it will profoundly serve the diverse needs of all.
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Novelists and journalists both use the same tools. Pens, paper, computers, and digital audio recorders are really at the bottom of the list. Narrative tales, regardless of which camp tells them, require information to start, followed by synthesis, context, and perspective. From there, the potential for interesting results grow.
A REPORTER AND A NOVELIST WALK INTO A BAR…
That experimental space of narrative invention is simultaneously the great dividing line between fiction and journalism, as well as the bridge between the two camps. Where journalism trades in carefully considered observations, backed up by sources and evidence, fiction makes sense of how received information fits into a larger cultural context. Where journalism digs up hard-to-reach raw minerals, fiction polishes them into jewels.
Read MorePOETRY AMID THE WRECKAGE
Through each cadenza, each sigh of poetry, each cue to shine spotlights on to the foot of the stage helps stave off life’s absurdities, which is really just another way of holding off the endlessly encroaching darkness.
Read MoreTAKING IT WITH YOU
None of us can carry all of our life experiences with us everyday, per se, but that doesn’t mean we can’t create ways to keep track of them. Just like runners arrive at each race through an accumulation of training and experience that leads up to the starting line, each of our lives can only be possible by an accumulation of experiences we choose to regard as parts of a much larger whole. When we break apart the moments of our lives into narrow, compartmentalized good moments and bad moments, we reduce ourselves to little more than highlight reels.
Read MoreHEART OF DARKNESS
Sweet things taste special precisely because they’re infrequent. They’re pure pleasure, but I’d never want a diet of chocolate and ice cream.
Read MoreSELF-CONTAINED WORLD
Days lived away from your daily life are not the same as you daily life. Take those changes from routine as an opportunity to simplify certain aspects of your day, even as you open your senses to opportunities for expansion.
Read MoreRON'S GARDEN
There’s never a way to know where you’ll find the creative process. People find ways to express it all the time, and sometimes it appears where you least expect it. Many people aren’t even consciously in touch with what motivates them to exercise their creative spirits. It simply emerges like flowers from the ground. In more easily identified, “traditional” artistic disciplines the trait is easier to spot; we recognize paintings and sculptures more easily than smart marigold beds.
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What you choose to fill this frame will depend on how much thought you think your message needs to have. Choosing between too much time and not enough time can be tricky.
SELFIES Vs. SELF PORTRAITS
What you choose to fill this frame will depend on how much thought you think your message needs to have. Choosing between too much time and not enough time can be tricky.
Read MoreART WITHOUT ART
Here at the edge of the world creative souls still stir. With almost no time for anything but work and essential labors necessary to maintain life and limb, literature and accomplished music and modern dance will not grow. It’s a simple statement and it’s true, just like tomato plants to not yield fruit in the desert. But here and there, in nuanced ways, I see expressions of individual expression, of ways to remake the world.
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In Rousseau's painting, the lion does not eat us. The rules are different when we're asleep.
SLEEP
Each of us get another crack at transformation every single day. It's called sleep.
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