T. Thorn Coyle6 days agoA Walk in Soft June RainIn the midst of the hustle, and the worry, and the pain, how often do you pause to breathe and feel moisture on your skin?
T. Thorn CoyleJun 4Corn Chips Give Me Brain fogAnd Why I Wear a Mask Part One: I have a chronic illness. Thankfully, it's under control, or mostly, at any rate. It went undiagnosed for...
T. Thorn CoyleMay 28Stories Matter"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." — Lloyd Alexander As a child, I was a voracious reader. Still...
T. Thorn CoyleFeb 19Crows and Other GiftsOn Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this...
T. Thorn CoyleJan 30Stephen King is Wrongand so are some of my friends “…when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea,...
T. Thorn CoyleNov 20, 2021Omelas Is Here: On Kyle Rittenhouse, White Supremacy, and Us“It was not then a question of crime, but rather one of color, that settled a man’s conviction on almost any charge.” — W. E. B. Dubois...
T. Thorn CoyleOct 23, 2021Decisive Details:on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...
T. Thorn CoyleSep 11, 2021The Long Haulon life in a rolling disaster Writing mentor and friend Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote a recent Patreon blog about the need for creative...
T. Thorn CoyleJul 24, 2021Creative GenerosityArt, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...
T. Thorn CoyleJun 26, 2021Who Benefits?On Commerce, Politics, and Art Part One: Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, ‘affairs of the cities’) is the set of activities that...
T. Thorn CoyleMay 8, 2021Who You Are: On Honesty, Process, and LifeWho are you, right now? What is your life like? What do you want, need, and desire? “Don’t compare your insides with someone else’s...
T. Thorn CoyleApr 10, 2021Be Here. NowOn Impatience, Injury, and The Practice of Presence I used to say that the universe conspired to have me in airports constantly because I...
T. Thorn CoyleMar 6, 2021On the Bust of YorkOr, Why Art Matters Not all pilgrimages involve ordeals. Sometimes, all we have to do is decide something is meaningful enough to trek up...
T. Thorn CoyleFeb 20, 2021The Ice of ChangeOn Runes, Solidarity, and Not Being Okay “what didn’t you do to bury mebut you forgot that I was a seed” — Dinos Christianopoulos,...
T. Thorn CoyleDec 27, 2020Clearing the Old YearI wanted to end 2020 by talking a bit about space clearing. We’re going to start with this meditation about clearing the space closest to...
T. Thorn CoyleDec 2, 2020What is Perfect, Anyway?“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...
T. Thorn CoyleAug 16, 2020Creation in Times of StrifeAnd then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...
T. Thorn CoyleMar 24, 2020Dismantle Omelas: Build Something NewThese are times of hope. These are times of rage. These are times of possibility. These are times of despair. In The Ones Who Walk Away...
T. Thorn CoyleJan 30, 2020It’s Not About You: White Authors, Systemic Racism, and American DirtExcept…there’s one facet of this tale that my own writing career intersects with. So, I’m going to speak. For context I recommended these...